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THE WORLD WAR 



SELECTIVE SERVICE IN THE 
COUNTY OF ALBANY IN 
THE STATE OF NEW YORK 



APRIL 6, 191 7 — NOVEMBER 11, 1918 




ALBANY 

J. B. LYON COMPANY. PRINTERS 

1 922 






LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 

RECEIVED 

SEP 9 1922 

DOCUMENTS DIVISION 




F. S. Hutchinson 

Draft Executive for the State of New Yorl* 



THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTY OF ALBANY, 
through their Home Defense Committee, in order to 
show their appreciation of the services and the self- 
denial of those residents of the county who served as members 
of the several draft boards during the World War, have caused 
this book to be compiled and dedicated to the honor of the 
members of — 

District Board No. 2 
Local Board No. 1 of the County of Albany 
Local Board No. 2 of the County of Albany 
Local Board No. 3 of the County of Albany 
Local Board No. 1 of the City of Albany 
Local Board No. 2 of the City of Albany 
Local Board No. 3 of the City of Albany 
Local Board No. 4 of the City of Albany 

HOME DEFENSE COMMITTEE OF THE COUNTY 
OF ALBANY, NEW YORK. 

Benjamin Walworth Arnold, Chairman 

James F. Tracey 

Gerrit Y. Lansing 

Laura Treadwell 

William Van Rensselaer Erving 

Edward B. Kurtz 

William D. Bos well 

Daniel P. Quinn 

J. Frank O'Marah, Secretary, 
Ellis J. Staley, 

Chairman Recruiting Committee. 
Albany, New York, November 11th, 1921. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

OF AMERICA 

A PROCLAMATION 



WHEREAS the Congress of the United States in the 
exercise of the constitutional authority vested in 
them have resolved, by joint resolution of the Senate 
and House of Representatives bearing date this day " that 
the state of war between the United States and the Imperial 
German government which has been tlirust upon the United 
States is hereby formally declared "; 

Whereas it is provided by Section four thousand and 
sixty-seven of the Revised Statutes, as follows: 

Whenever there is declared a war between the United 
States and any foreign nation or government, or any 
invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, 
or threatened against the territory of the United States, 
by any foreign nation or government, and the President 
makes public proclamation of the event, all natives, citi- 
zens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or govern- 
ment, being males of the age of fourteen years and up- 
wards, who shall be within the United States, and not 
actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, 
restrained, secured, and removed, as alien enemies. The 
President is authorized, in any such event, by his proc- 
lamation thereof, or other public act, to direct the con- 
duct to be observed, on the part of the United States, 
toward the aliens who become so liable; the manner and 
degree of the restraint to which they shall be subject, 
and in what cases, and upon what security their residence 
shall be permitted, and to provide for the removal of 
those who, not being permitted to reside within the 



6 The World War — Selective Service 

United States, refuse or neglect to depart therefrom; and 
to establish any other regulations which are found 
necessary in the premises and for the public safety; 

Whereas, by Sections four thousand and sixty-eight, four 
thousand and sixty-nine, and four thousand and seventy, of 
the Revised Statutes, further provision is made relative to 
alien enemies; 

Now, Therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the 
United States of America, do hereby proclaim to all whom it 
may concern that a state of war exists between the United 
States and the Imperial German Government; and I do 
specially direct all officers, civil or military, of the United 
States that they exercise vigilance and zeal in the discharge 
of the duties incident to such a state of war; and I do, more- 
over, earnestly appeal to all American citizens that they, in 
loyal devotion to their country, dedicated from its foundation 
to the principles of liberty and justice, uphold the laws of the 
land, and give undivided and willing support to those measures 
which may be adopted by the constitutional authorities in 
prosecuting the war to a successful issue and in obtaining a 
secure and just peace ; 

And, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in 
me by the Constitution of the United States and the said 
sections of the Revised Statutes, I do hereby further proclaim 
and direct that the conduct to be observed on the part of the 
United States towards all natives, citizens, denizens, or sub- 
jects of Germany, being males of the age of fourteen years 
and upwards, who shall be within the United States and not 
actually naturalized, who for the purpose of this proclamation 
and under such sections of the Revised Statutes are termed 
alien enemies, shall be as follows: 

All alien enemies are enjoined to preserve the peace towards 
the United States and to refrain from crime against the public 



State of New York — Albany County 7 

safety, and from violating the laws of the United States and 
of the States and Territories thereof, and to refrain from actual 
hostility or giving information, aid or comfort to the enemies 
of the United States, and to comply strictly with the regu- 
lations which are hereby or which may be from time to time 
promulgated by the President; and so long as they shall 
conduct themselves in accordance with law, they shall be 
undisturbed in the peaceful pursuit of their lives and occu- 
pations and be accorded the consideration due to all peaceful 
and law-abiding persons, except so far as restrictions may be 
necessary for their own protection and for the safety of the 
United States; and towards such alien enemies as conduct 
themselves in accordance with law, all citizens of the United 
States are enjoined to preserve the peace and to treat them 
with all such friendliness as may be compatible with loyalty 
and allegiance to the United States; 

And all alien enemies who fail to conduct themselves as so 
enjoined, in addition to all other penalties prescribed by law. 
shall be liable to restraint, or to give security, or to remove 
and depart from the United States in the manner prescribed 
by Sections four thousand and sixty-nine and four thousand 
and seventy of the Revised Statutes, and as prescribed in the 
regulations duly promulgated by the President; 

And pursuant to the authority vested in me, I hereby declare 
and establish the following regulations, which I find necessary 
in the premises and for the public safety : 

(1) An alien enemy shall not have in his possession, at any 
time or place, any fire-arm, weapon or implement of 
war, or component part thereof, ammunition, maxim or 
other silencer, bomb or explosive or material used in 
the manufacture of explosives; 

(2) An alien enemy shall not have in his possession at any 
time or place, or use or operate any aircraft or wireless 
apparatus, or any form of signalling device, or any form 
of cipher code, or any paper, document or book written 



8 The World War — Selective Service 

or printed in cipher or in which there may be invisible 
writing ; 

(3) All property found in the possession of an alien enemy 
in violation of the foregoing regulations shall be subject 
to seizure by the United States ; 

(4) An alien enemy shall not approach or be found within 
one-half of a mile of any Federal or State fort, camp, 
arsenal, aircraft station, Government or naval vessel, 
navy yard, factory, or workshop for the manufacture 
of munitions of war or of any products for the use of 
the army or navy; 

(5) An alien enemy shall not write, print, or publish any 
attack or threats against the Government or Congress 
of the United States, or either branch thereof, or against 
the measures or policy of the United States, or against 
the person or property of any person in the military, 
naval, or civil service of the United States, or of the 
States or Territories, or of the District of Columbia, or 
of the municipal governments therein; 

(6) An alien enemy shall not commit or abet any hostile 
act against the United States, or give information, aid, 
or comfort to its enemies; 

(7) An alien enemy shall not reside in or continue to reside 
in, to remain in, or enter any locality which the Presi- 
dent may from time to time designate by Executive 
Order as a prohibited area in which residence by an 
alien enemy shall be found by him to constitute a danger 
to the public peace and safety of the United States, 
except by permit from the President and except under 
such limitations or restrictions as the President may 
prescribe; 

(8) An alien enemy whom the President shall have reason- 
able cause to believe to be aiding or about to aid the 
enemy, or to be at large to the danger of the public 
peace or safety of the United States, or to have violated 
or to be about to violate any of these regulations, : hall 
remove to any location designated by the President by 
Executive Order, and shall not remove therefrom with- 
out a permit, or shall depart from the United States if 
so required by the President ; 



State of New York — Albany County 9 

(9) No alien enemy shall depart from the United States 
until he shall have received such permit as the Presi- 
dent shall prescribe, or except under order of a court, 
judge, or justice, under Sections 4069 and 4070 of the 
Revised Statutes; 

(10) No alien enemy shall land in or enter the United States, 
except under such restrictions and at such places as the 
President may prescribe; 

(11) If necessary to prevent violations of these regulations, 
all alien enemies will be obliged to register ; 

(12) An alien enemy whom there may be reasonable cause to 
believe to be aiding or about to aid the enemy, or who 
may be at large to the danger of the public peace or 
safety, or who violates or attempts to violate, or of 
whom there is reasonable ground to believe that he is 
about to violate, any regulation duly promulgated by 
the President, or any criminal law of the United States, 
or of the States or Territories thereof, will be subject 
to summary arrest by the United States Marshal, or 
his deputy, or such other officer as the President shall 
designate, and to confinement in such penitentiary, 
prison, jail, military camp, or other place of detention 
as may be directed by the President. 

This proclamation and the regulations herein contained shall 
extend and apply to all land and water, continental or insular, 
in any way within the jurisdiction of the United States. 

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and 
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. 

Done at the City of Washington, this sixth day of 
April, in the year of our Lord one thousand 
[seal] nine hundred and seventeen, and of the inde- 
pendence of the United States the one hun- 
dred and forty-first. 

WOODROW WILSON 
By the President : 
Robert Lansing, 

Secretary of State. 



A PROCLAMATION 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

WHEREAS Congress has enacted and the President has, 
on the eighteenth day of May, one thousand nine 
hundred and seventeen, approved a law which con- 
tains the following provisions : 

Sec. 5. That all male persons between the ages of twenty- 
one and thirty, both inclusive, shall be subject to registration 
in accordance with regulations to be prescribed by the Presi- 
dent; and upon proclamation by the President or other public 
notice given by him or by his direction stating the time and 
place of such registration it shall be the duty of all persons of 
the designated ages, except officers and enlisted men of the 
Regular Army, the Navy, and the National Guard and Naval 
Militia while in the service of the United States, to present 
themselves for and submit to registration under the provisions 
of this Act; and every such person shall be deemed to have 
notice of the requirements of this Act upon the publication of 
said proclamation or other notice as aforesaid given by the 
President or by his direction; and any person who shall will- 
fully fail or refuse to present himself for registration or to sub- 
mit thereto as herein provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor 
and shall, upon conviction in the district court of the United 
States having jurisdiction thereof, be punished by imprison- 
ment for not more than one year, and shall thereupon be duly 
registered : Provided, That in the call of the docket precedence 
shall be given, in courts trying the same, to the trial of criminal 
proceedings under this Act: Provided further, That persons shall 

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12 The World War — ■ Selective Service 

be subject to registration as herein provided who shall have 
attained their twenty-first birthday and who shall not have 
attained their thirty-first birthday on or before the day set for 
the registration, and all persons so registered shall be and 
remain subject to draft into the forces hereby authorized, unless 
exempted or excused therefrom as in this Act provided: Pro- 
vided further , That in the case of temporary absence from actual 
place of legal residence of any person liable to registration as 
provided herein such registration may be made by mail under 
regulations to be prescribed by the President. 

Sec. 6. That the President is hereby authorized to utilize 
the service of any or all departments and any or all officers or 
agents of the United States and of the Several States, Terri- 
tories, and the District of Columbia, and subdivisions thereof, 
in the execution of this Act, and all officers and agents of the 
United States and of the several States, Territories, and sub- 
divisions thereof, and of the District of Columbia, and all 
persons designated or appointed under regulations prescribed 
by the President whether such appointments are made by the 
President himself or by the governor or other officer of any 
State or Territory to perform any duty in the execution of 
this Act, are hereby required to perform such duty as the Presi- 
dent shall order or direct, and all such officers and agents and 
persons so designated or appointed shall hereby have full 
authority for all acts done by them in the execution of this Act 
by the direction of the President. Correspondence in the exe- 
cution of this Act may be carried in penalty envelopes bearing 
the frank of the War Department. Any person charged as 
herein provided with the duty of carrying into effect any of 
the provisions of this Act or the regulations made or directions 
given thereunder who shall fail or neglect to perform such duty; 
and any person charged with such duty or having and exer- 
cising any authority under said Act, regulations, or directions, 



State of New York — Albany County 13 

who shall knowingly make or be a party to the making of any 
false or incorrect registration, physical examination, exemption, 
enlistment, enrollment, or muster; and any person who shall 
make or be a party to the making of any false statement or 
certificate as to the fitness or liability of himself or any other 
person for service under the provisions of this Act, or regula- 
tions made by the President thereunder, or otherwise evades 
or aids another to evade the requirements of this Act or of said 
regulations, or who, in any manner, shall fail or neglect fully 
to perform any duty required of him in the execution of this 
Act. shall, if not subject to military law, be guilty of a misde- 
meanor, and upon conviction in the district court of the United 
States having jurisdiction thereof, be punished by imprison- 
ment for not more than one year, or, if subject to military law, 
shall be tried by court-martial and suffer such punishment as 
a court-martial may direct. 

Xow, therefore. I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the 
United States, do call upon the governor of each of the several 
States and Territories, the Board of Commissioners of the 
District of Columbia, and all officers and agents of the several 
States and Territories, of the District of Columbia, and of the 
counties and municipalities therein, to perform certain duties 
in the execution of the foregoing law, which duties will be com- 
municated to them directly in regulations of even date here- 
with. 

And I do further proclaim and give notice to all persons 
subject to registration in the several States and in the District 
of Columbia, in accordance with the above law, that the time 
and place of such registration shall be between 7 a. m. and 9 
p. m. on the fifth day of June, 1917, at the registration place 
in the precinct wherein they have their permanent homes. 
Those who shall have attained their twenty-first birthday and 
who shall not have attained their thirty-first birthday on or 



14 The World War — Selective Service 

before the day here named are required to register, excepting 
only officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army, the Navy, 
the Marine Corps, and the National Guard and Naval Militia 
while in the service of the United States, and officers in the 
Officers' Reserve Corps and enlisted men in the Enlisted 
Reserve Corps while in active service. In the Territories of 
Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico a day for registration will be 
named in a later proclamation. 

And I do charge those who through sickness shall be unable 
to present themselves for registration that they apply on or 
before the day of registration to the county clerk of the county 
where they may be for instructions as to how they may be 
registered by agent. Those who expect to be absent on the 
day named from the counties in which they have their perma- 
nent homes may register by mail, but their mailed registration 
cards must reach the places in which they have their perma- 
nent homes by the day named herein. They should apply as 
soon as practicable to the county clerk of the county wherein 
they may be for instructions as to how they may accomplish 
their registration by mail. In case such persons as, through 
sickness or absence, may be unable to present themselves per- 
sonally for registration shall be sojourning in cities of over 
thirty thousand population, they shall apply to the city clerk 
of the city wherein they may be sojourning rather than to the 
clerk of the county. The clerks of counties and of cities of over 
thirty thousand population in which numerous applications 
from the sick and from nonresidents are expected are author- 
ized to establish such subagencies and to employ and deputize 
such clerical force as may be necessary to accommodate these 
applications. 

The power against which we are arrayed has sought to impose 
its will upon the world by force. To this end it has increased 
armament until it has changed the face of war. In the sense 



State of New York — Albany County 15 

in which we have been wont to think of armies there are no 
armies in this struggle. There are entire nations armed. 
Thus, the men who remain to till the soil and man the factories 
are no less a part of the army that is France than the men 
beneath the battle flags. It must be so with us. It is not an 
army that we must shape and train for war; it is a nation. To 
this end our people must draw close in one compact front 
against a common foe. But this can not be if each man pur- 
sues a private purpose. All must pursue one purpose. The 
Nation needs all men; but it needs each man, not in the field 
that will most pleasure him, but in the endeavor that will best 
serve the common good. Thus, though a sharpshooter pleases 
to operate a trip-hammer for the forging of great guns, and an 
expert machinist desires to march with the flag, the Nation is 
being served only when the sharpshooter marches and the 
machinist remains at his levers. The whole Nation must be a 
team in which each man shall play the part for which he is 
best fitted. To this end, Congress has provided that the 
Nation shall be organized for war by selection and that each 
man shall be classified for service in the place to which it shall 
best serve the general good to call him. 

The significance of this can not be overstated It is a new 
thing in our history and a landmark in our progress. It is a 
new manner of accepting and vitalizing our duty to give our- 
selves with thoughtful devotion to the common purpose of us 
all. It is in no sense a conscription of the unwilling; it is, 
rather, selection from a nation which has volunteered in mass. 
It is no more a choosing of those who shall march with the 
colors than it is a selection of those who shall serve an equally 
necessary and devoted purpose in the industries that lie behind 
the battle line. 

The day here named is the time upon which all shall present 
themselves for assignment to their tasks. It is for that reason 
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16 The World War — Selective Service 

destined to be remembered as one of the most conspicuous 
moments in our history. It is nothing less than the day upon 
which the manhood of the country shall step forward in one 
solid rank in defense of the ideals to which this Nation is con- 
secrated. It is important to those ideals no less than to the pride 
of this generation in manifesting its devotion to them, that 
there be no gaps in the ranks. 

It is essential that the day be approached in thoughtful 
apprehension of its significance and that we accord to it the 
honor and the meaning that it deserves. Our industrial need 
prescribes that it be not made a technical holiday, but the 
stern sacrifice that is before us urges that it be carried in all 
our hearts as a great day of patriotic devotion and obligation 
when the duty shall lie upon every man, whether he is himself 
to be registered or not, to see to it that the name of every male 
person of the designated ages is written on these lists of honor. 

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and 
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. 

Done at the City of Washington, this eighteenth day 
of May in the year of our Lord one thousand 
[seal] nine hundred and seventeen and of the inde- 
pendence of the United States of America, the 
one hundred and forty-first. 

WOODROW WILSON 
By the President : 
Robert Lansing, 
Secretary of State. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

OF AMERICA 

A PROCLAMATION 



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HEREAS, the United States of America and the 
Imperial German Government are now at war, and 
having in view the consequent danger of aggression 
by a foreign enemy upon the territory of the United States and 
the necessity for proper protection against possible interference 
with the execution of the laws of the Union by agents of the 
enemy, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, 
by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution 
and the laws of the United States and through the governors of 
the respective States, call into the service of the United States 
as of and from the dates hereinafter respectively indicated all 
members of the National Guard and all enlisted members of 
the National Guard Reserve of the following States, who are 
not now in the service of the United States, except members 
of staff corps and departments not included in the personnel 
of tactical organizations, and except such officers of the 
National Guard as have been or may be specially notified by 
my authority that they will not be affected by this call, to wit: 

On July 15, 1917, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West 
Virginia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, North 
Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska; 

On July 25, 1917, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa- 
chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, 
Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, 
South Carolina, Tennessee, Illinois, Montana, Wyoming, 
Idaho, Washington and Oregon. 

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18 The World War — Selective Service 

The members of the National Guard of the various States 
affected by this call will be concentrated at such places as 
may be designated by the War Department. 

II. And, under the authority conferred upon me by clause 
second of Section one of the Act of Congress " to authorize 
the President to increase temporarily the military establish- 
ment of the United States," approved May 18, 1917, I do 
hereby draft into the military service of the United States as 
of and from the fifth day of August, nineteen hundred and 
seventeen, all members of the National Guard and all enlisted 
members of the National Guard Reserve of the following 
States, except members of staff corps and departments not 
included in the personnel of tactical organizations, and except 
such other officers of the National Guard as have been or 
may be specially notified by my authority that they will not 
be drafted, to wit : 

New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Michigan, 
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, 
Nebraska, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, 
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, 
District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro- 
lina, Tennessee, Illinois, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Washing- 
ton, Oregon, Indiana, Kentucky, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, 
Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, 
Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and California. 

III. All persons hereby drafted shall on and from the fifth 
day of August, nineteen hundred and seventeen, stand dis- 
charged from the militia, and, under the terms of Section 2 
of the Act of May 18, 1917, be subject to the laws and regu- 
lations governing the Regular Army, except as to promotions, 
so far as such laws and regulations are applicable to persons 
whose permanent retention in the military service on the 
active or retired list is not contemplated by law. 



State of New York — Albany County 19 

IV. The members of each company, battalion, regiment, 
brigade, division, or other organizations of the National Guard 
hereby drafted into the military service of the United States 
shall be embodied in organizations corresponding to those of 
the Regular Army. The officers not above the rank of colonel 
of said organizations of the National Guard who are drafted 
and whose offices are provided for in like organizations of the 
Regular Army, are hereby appointed officers in the Army of 
the United States in the arm, staff corps or department, and 
in the grades in which they now hold commission as officers 
of the National Guard, such appointments to be effective, 
subject to acceptance, on and from the fifth day of August, 
nineteen hundred and seventeen, and each of them, subject 
to such acceptance, is hereby assigned as of said date to the 
organization in the Army of the United States composed of 
those who were members of the organization of the National 
Guard in which at the time of draft he held a commission. 
The noncommissioned officers of the organizations of the 
National Guard the members of which are hereby drafted are 
hereby appointed noncommissioned officers in their present 
grade in the organizations of the Army composed of said 
members and shall in each case have the same relative rank 
as heretofore; and all other enlisted men are hereby confirmed 
in the Army of the United States in the grades and ratings 
held by them in the National Guard in all cases where such 
grades and ratings correspond to grades and ratings provided 
for in like organizations of the Regular Army, all such appoint- 
ments of noncommissioned officers and confirmations of other 
enlisted men in their grades to be without prejudice to the 
authority of subordinate commanders in respect of promotions, 
reductions and changes in enlisted personnel. 

V. Each organization of the military force hereby created 
will, until further orders, bear the same name and designation 



20 The World War — Selective Service 

as the former organization of the National Guard of whose 
members it is composed. 

VI. All necessary orders for combining the organizations 
created by embodying therein members of the National Guard 
and National Guard Reserve hereby drafted into the military 
service of the United States into complete tactical units will 
be issued by the War Department. 

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and 
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. 

Done at the City of Washington this third day of 

July in the year of our Lord one thousand nine 

[seal.] hundred and seventeen, and of the Independence 

of the United States of America the one hundred 

and forty-first. 

WOODROW WILSON 
By the President: 

Robert Lansing, 
Secretary of State. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

OF AMERICA 

A PROCLAMATION 



WHEREAS the Congress of the United States in the 
exercise of the constitutional authority vested in 
them have resolved, by joint resolution of the 
Senate and House of Representatives bearing date of Decem- 
ber 7th, 1917, as follows: 

" Whereas the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian 
Government has committed repeated acts of war against the 
Government and the people of the United States of America : 
Therefore be it 

" Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
That a state of war is hereby declared to exist between the 
United States of America and the Imperial and Royal 
Austro-Hungarian Government; and that the President be, 
and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ the 
entire naval and military forces of the United States and 
the resources of the Government to carry on war against 
the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government; and 
to bring the conflict to a successful termination all the 
resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress 
of the United States." 

Whereas, by Sections four thousand and sixty-seven, four 
thousand and sixty-eight, four thousand and sixty-nine, and 
four thousand and seventy, of the Revised Statutes, provision 
is made relative to natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of a 
hostile nation or government, being males of the age of four- 
teen years and upwards, who shall be in the United States and 
not actually naturalized ; 

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22 The World War — Selective Service 

Now, Therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the 
United States of America, do hereby proclaim to all whom it 
may concern, that a state of war exists between the United 
States and the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Govern- 
ment; and I do specially direct all officers, civil or military, of 
the United States that they exercise vigilance and zeal in the 
discharge of the duties incident to such a state of war; and I 
do, moreover, earnestly appeal to all American citizens that 
they, in loyal devotion to their country, dedicated from its 
foundation to the principles of liberty and justice, uphold the 
laws of the land, and give undivided and willing support to 
those measures which may be adopted by the constitutional 
authorities in prosecuting the war to a successful issue and in 
obtaining a secure and just peace; 

And, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in 
me by the Constitution of the United States and the aforesaid 
sections of the Revised Statutes, I do hereby further proclaim 
and direct that the conduct to be observed on the part of the 
United States towards all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects 
of Austria-Hungary, being males of the age of fourteen years 
and upwards, who shall be within the United States and not 
actually naturalized, shall be as follows : 

All natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of Austria-Hun- 
gary, being males of fourteen years and upwards, who shall 
be within the United States and not actually naturalized, are 
enjoined to preserve the peace towards the United States and 
to refrain from crime against the public safety, and from vio- 
lating the laws of the United States and of the States and Terri- 
tories thereof, and to refrain from actual hostility or giving 
information, aid or comfort to the enemies of the United States, 
and to comply strictly with the regulations which are hereby 
or which may be from time to time promulgated by the Presi- 
dent; and so long as they shall conduct themselves in accord- 



State of New York — Albany County 23 

ance with law, they shall be undisturbed in the peaceful 
pursuit of their lives and occupations and be accorded the 
consideration due to all peaceful and law-abiding persons, 
except so far as restrictions may be necessary for their own 
protection and for the safety of the United States ; and towards 
such of said persons as conduct themselves in accordance with 
law, all citizens of the United States are enjoined to preserve 
the peace and to treat them with all such friendliness as may 
be compatible with loyalty and allegiance to the United States. 

And all natives, citizens, denizens or subjects of Austria-Hun- 
gary, being males of the age of fourteen years and upwards, who 
shall be within the United States and not actually naturalized, 
who fail to conduct themselves as so enjoined, in addition to all 
other penalties prescribed by law, shall be liable to restraint, 
or to give security, or to remove and depart from the United 
States in the manner prescribed by Sections four thousand 
and sixty-nine and four thousand and seventy of the Revised 
Statutes, and as prescribed in regulations duly promulgated by 
the President; 

And pursuant to the authority vested in me I hereby 
declare and establish the following regulations, which I find 
necessary in the premises and for the public safety : 

(1) No native, citizen, denizen or subject of Austria-Hun- 
gary, being a male of the age of fourteen years and 
upwards and not actually naturalized, shall depart from 
the United States until he shall have received such 
permit as the President shall prescribe, or except under 
order of a court, judge, or justice, under Sections 4069 
and 4070 of the Revised Statutes; 

(2) No such person shall land in or enter the United States, 
except under such restrictions and at such places as the 
President may prescribe; 

(3) Every such person of whom there may be reasonable 
cause to believe that he is aiding or about to aid the 
enemy, or who may be at large to the danger of the 



24 The World War — Selective Service 

public peace or safety, or who violates or attempts to 
violate, or of whom there is reasonable ground to believe 
that he is about to violate any regulation duly promul- 
gated by the President, or any criminal law of the 
United States, or of the States or Territories thereof, 
will be subject to summary arrest by the United States 
Marshal, or his deputy, or such other officer as the 
President shall designate, and to confinement in such 
penitentiary, prison, jail, military camp, or other place 
of detention as may be directed by the President. 

This proclamation and the regulations herein contained shall 
extend and apply to all land and water, continental or insular, 
in any way within the jurisdiction of the United States. 

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and 
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. 

Done in the District of Columbia, this eleventh day 
of December, in the year of our Lord one thou- 
[seal] sand nine hundred and seventeen, and of the 
independence of the United States the one hun- 
dred and forty-second. 

WOODROW WILSON 
By the President : 
Robert Lansing, 
Secretary of State. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

OF AMERICA 

A PROCLAMATION 



WHEREAS Congress has enacted and the President has, 
on the 20th day of May, one thousand nine hundred 
and eighteen, approved the following Public Resolu- 
tion: 

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That during 
the present emergency all male persons, citizens of the United 
States, and all male persons residing in the United States, who 
have, since the fifth day of June, nineteen hundred and seven- 
teen, and on or before the day set for the registration by proc- 
lamation by the President, attained the age of twenty-one 
years, shall be subject to registration in accordance with regu- 
lations to be prescribed by the President, and that upon 
proclamation by the President, stating the time and place of 
such registration, it shall be the duty of all such persons, except 
such persons as are exempt from registration under the Act of 
May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and any Act 
or Acts amendatory thereof, to present themselves for and sub- 
mit to registration under the provisions of said Act approved 
May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and they 
shall be registered in the same manner and subject to the same 
requirements and liabilities as those previously registered under 
the terms of said Act : Provided, That those persons registered 
under the provisions of this Act shall be placed at the bottom 
of the list of those liable for military service, in the several 
classes to which they are assigned, under such rules and regu- 
lations as the President may prescribe. 

Sec. 2. That after the day set under section one hereof 
for the registration by proclamation by the President at such 
intervals as the President may from time to time prescribe, 

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the President may require that all male persons, citizens of the 
United States, and all male persons residing in the United 
States, who have attained the age of twenty-one years since 
the last preceding date of registration, and on or before the 
next day set for the registration by proclamation by the Presi- 
dent, except such persons as are exempt from registration 
under the Act of May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seven- 
teen, and any Act or Acts amendatory thereof, shall be regis- 
tered in the same manner and subject to the same requirements 
and liabilities as those previously registered under the terms 
of said Act: Provided, That students who are preparing for 
the ministry in recognized theological or divinity schools, and 
students who are preparing for the practice of medicine and 
surgery in recognized medical schools, at the time of the 
approval of this Act shall be exempt from the selective draft 
prescribed in the Act of May eighteenth, nineteen hundred 
and seventeen. 

Sec. 3. That all such persons when registered shall be 
liable to military service and to draft under the terms of said 
Act approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seven- 
teen, under such regulations as the President may prescribe 
not inconsistent with the terms of said Act. 

Sec. 4. That all such persons shall be subject to the terms 
and provisions and liabilities of said Act approved May 
eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, in all respects as if 
they had been registered under the terms of said Act, and every 
such person shall be deemed to have notice of the require- 
ments of said Act and of this joint resolution upon the publi- 
cation of any such proclamation by the President. 

And Whereas the Act of Congress approved May 
eighteenth, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, entitled 
"An act to authorize the President to increase temporarily 
the Military Establishment of the United States," contains 
the following provisions: 

Sec. 5. * * * And any person who shall wilfully fail or 
refuse to present himself for registration or to submit thereto 
as herein provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, 



State of New York — Albany County 27 

upon conviction in the district court of the United States 
having jurisdiction thereof, be punished by imprisonment for 
not more than one year, and shall thereupon be duly regis- 
tered : Provided, That in the call of the docket precedence shall 
be given, in courts trying the same, to the trial of criminal 
proceedings under this act. * * * 

Sec. 6. That the President is hereby authorized to utilize 
the service of any or all departments and any or all officers or 
agents of the United States and of the several States, Terri- 
tories, and the District of Columbia, and sub-divisions thereof, 
in the execution of this act, and all officers and agents of the 
United States and of the several States, Territories, and sub- 
divisions thereof, and of the District of Columbia, and all 
persons designated or appointed under regulations prescribed 
by the President whether such appointments are made by the 
President himself or by the governor or other officer of any 
State or Territory to perform any duty in the execution of this 
act, are hereby required to perform such duty as the President 
shall order or direct, and all such officers and agents and per- 
sons so designated or appointed shall hereby have full authority 
for all acts done by them in the execution of this act by the 
direction of the President. Correspondence in the execution 
of this act may be carried in penalty envelopes bearing the 
frank of the War Department. Any person charged as herein 
provided with the duty of carrying into effect any of the pro- 
visions of this act or the regulations made or directions given 
thereunder who shall fail or neglect to perform such duty; and 
any person charged with such duty or having and exercising 
any authority under said act, regulations, or directions, who 
shall knowingly make or be a party to the making of any 
false or incorrect registration, physical examination, exemption, 
enlistment, enrollment, or muster; and any person who shall 
make or be a party to the making of any false statement or 
certificate as to the fitness or liability of himself or any other 
person for service under the provisions of this act, or regula- 
tions made by the President thereunder, or otherwise evades 
or aids another to evade the requirements of this act or of said 
regulations, or who, in any manner, shall fail or neglect fully 
to perform any duty required of him in the execution of this 



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act, shall, if not subject to military law, be guilty of a misde- 
meanor, and upon conviction in the district court of the United 
States having jurisdiction thereof, be punished by imprison- 
ment for not more than one year, or, if subject to military law, 
shall be tried by court-martial and suffer such punishment as 
a court-martial may direct. 

Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the 
United States, do call upon the governor of each of the several 
States, the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, 
and all members of Local Boards and agents thereof appointed 
under the provisions of said act of Congress approved May 18, 
1917, to perform certain duties in the execution of the fore- 
going law, which duties will be communicated to them directly 
in the regulations prescribed under the terms of said Public 
Resolution. 

And I do further proclaim and give notice to every person 
subject to registration in the several States, and in the Dist- 
rict of Columbia, in accordance with the above law, that the 
time and place of such registration shall be between 7 a. m. 
and 9 p. m. on the 5th day of June, 1918, at the office of the 
Local Board having jurisdiction of the area wherein he per- 
manently resides, or at such other place as shall be designated 
by public notice by such Local Board. 

All male persons, either citizens of the United States or 
residing in the several States, or in the District of Columbia, 
who have, since the 5th day of June, 1917, and on or 
before the 5th day of June, 1918, attained their twenty- 
first birthday, are required to register in accordance with the 
above law and the regulations prescribed thereunder : Provided, 
however, That the following persons are hereby exempted from 
registration: Officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army, 
the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the National Guard and 
Naval Militia while in the service of the United States, and 



State of New York — Albany County 29 

officers in the Officers' Reserve Corps and enlisted men in the 
Enlisted Reserve Corps while in active service. 

A day for registration in the Territories of Alaska, Hawaii, 
and Porto Rico will be named in a later proclamation. 

As required by the regulations, every Local Board having 
jurisdiction in a city of 30,000 population or over will promptly 
cause the mayor thereof to be notified of the place or places 
designated for registration; every Local Board having juris- 
diction in a county, parish, or similar unit will promptly cause 
the clerk thereof to be notified of the place or places designated 
for registration, and every Local Board having jurisdiction in 
a State or Territory, the area of which is divided into divisions 
for the administration of the act approved May 18, 1917, will 
promptly cause the clerks of the townships within its division 
to be notified of the place or places designated for registration. 

And I do call upon every mayor, county clerk, or township 
clerk receiving such notification to have a list of said places 
of registration posted, and do charge him with the duty of 
having all persons making inquiry informed of the place or 
places at which they may register. 

Any person who, on account of sickness, will be unable to 
present himself for registration may apply on or before the 
day of registration at the office of any Local Board for 
instructions as to how he may register by agent. 

Any person who expects to be absent on the day designated 
for registration from the jurisdiction of the board in which he 
permanently resides may register by mail, but his registration 
card must reach the Local Board having jurisdiction of the 
area wherein he permanently resides by the day herein named 
for registration. Any such person should apply as soon as 
practicable at the office of a Local Board for instructions as to 
how he may register by mail. 

Any person who has no permanent residence must register 



30 The World War — Selective Service 

at the place designated for registration by the Local Beard 
having jurisdiction of the area wherein he may be on the day 
herein named for registration. 

Any person who, on account of absence at sea, or on account 
of absence without the territorial limits of the United States, 
may be unable to comply with the regulations pertaining to 
absentees, shall, within five days after reaching the first United 
States port, register with his proper Local Board or as provided 
in the regulations for other absentees. 

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and 
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. 

Done in the District of Columbia this twentieth day 
of May in the year of our Lord one thousand 
[seal] nine hundred and eighteen and of the inde- 
pendence of the United States of America, the 
one hundred and forty-second. 

WOODROW WILSON 
By the President : 
Robert Lansing, 
Secretary of State. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

OF AMERICA 

A PROCLAxMATION 



WHEREAS Congress enacted and the President, on the 
twentieth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and 
eighteen, approved the following Public Resolution : 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That during 
the present emergency all male persons, citizens of the United 
States, and all male persons residing in the United States, 
who have, since the fifth day of June, nineteen hundred and 
seventeen, and on or before the day set for the registration 
by proclamation by the President, attained the age of twenty- 
one years, shall be subject to registration in accordance with 
regulations to be prescribed by the President, and that upon 
proclamation by the President, stating the time and place of 
such registration, it shall be the duty of all such persons, 
except such persons as are exempt from registration under 
the Act of May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, 
and any Act or Acts amendatory thereof, to present them- 
selves for and submit to registration under the provisions of 
said Act approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and 
seventeen, and they shall be registered in the same manner 
and subject to the same requirements and liabilities as those 
previously registered under the terms of said Act: Provided, 
That those persons registered under the provisions of this Act 
shall be placed at the bottom of the list of those liable for 
military service, in the several classes to which they are 
assigned, under such rules and regulations as the President 
may prescribe. 

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Sec. 2. That after the day set under Section one hereof for 
the registration by proclamation by the President at such 
intervals as the President may from time to time prescribe, 
the President may require that all male persons, citizens of 
the United States, and all male persons residing in the United 
States, who have attained the age of twenty-one years since 
the last preceding date of registration, and on or before the 
next day set for the registration by proclamation by the 
President, except such persons as are exempt from registration 
under the Act of May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and 
seventeen, and any Act or Acts amendatory thereof, shall be 
registered in the same manner and subject to the same require- 
ments and liabilities as those previously registered under the 
terms of said Act : Provided, That students who are preparing 
for the ministry in recognized theological or divinity schools, 
and students who are preparing for the practice of medicine 
and surgery in recognized medical schools, at the time of the 
approval of this Act, shall be exempt from the selective draft 
prescribed in the Act of May eighteenth, nineteen hundred 
and seventeen. 

Sec. 3. That all such persons when registered shall be liable 
to military service and to draft under the terms of said Act 
approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, 
under such regulations as the President may prescribe not 
inconsistent with the terms of said Act. 

Sec. 4. That all such persons shall be subject to the terms 
and provisions and liabilities of said Act approved May 
eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, in all respects as 
if they had been registered under the terms of said Act, and 
every such person shall be deemed to have notice of the require- 
ments of said Act and of this joint resolution upon the publi- 
cation of any such proclamation by the President. 

AND WHEREAS the act of Congress approved May 
eighteenth, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, entitled 



State of New York — Albany County 33 

" An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily 
the Military Establishment of the United States," contains 
the following provisions: 

Sec. 5. * * * And any person who shall willfully fail or 
refuse to present himself for registration or to submit thereto 
as herein provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and 
shall, upon conviction in the district court of the United 
States having jurisdiction thereof, be punished by imprison- 
ment for not more than one year, and shall thereupon be duly 
registered : Provided, That in the call of the docket precedence 
shall be given in courts trying the same, to the trial of criminal 
proceedings under this act. * * * 

Sec. 6. That the President is hereby authorized to utilize 
the service of any or all departments and any or all officers or 
agents of the United States and of the several States, Terri- 
tories, and the District of Columbia, and subdivisions thereof, 
in the execution of this Act, and all officers and agents of the 
United States and of the several States, Territories, and 
subdivisions thereof, and of the District of Columbia, and all 
persons designated or appointed under regulations prescribed 
by the President whether such appointments are made by the 
President himself or by the governor or other officer of any 
State or Territory to perform any duty in the execution of 
this Act, are hereby required to perform such duty as the 
President shall order or direct, and all such officers and agents 
and persons so designated or appointed shall hereby have full 
authority for all acts done by them in the execution of this 
Act by the direction of the President. Correspondence in the 
execution of this Act may be carried in penalty envelopes 
bearing the frank of the War Department. Any person 
charged as herein provided with the duty of carrying into 
effect any of the provisions of this act or the regulations made 
or directions given thereunder who shall fail or neglect to 
perform such duty; and any person charged with such duty 



34 The World JJ'ar — Selective Service 

or having and exercising any authority under said Act, regu- 
lations, or directions, who shall knowingly make or be a party 
to the making of any false or incorrect registration, physical 
examination, exemption, enlistment, enrollment, or muster, 
and any person who shall make or be a party to the making 
of any false statement or certificate as to the fitness or liability 
of himself or any other person for service under the provisions 
of this Act or regulations made by the President thereunder, 
or otherwise, evades or aids another to evade the requirements 
of this Act or of said regulations, or who, in any manner, 
shall fail or neglect fully to perform any duty required of him 
in the execution of this Act, shall, if not subject to military 
law, be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction in the 
district court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, 
be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year, or, 
if subject to military law, shall be tried by court-martial and 
suffer such punishment as a court-martial may direct. 

AND WHEREAS the last preceding date of registration 
under the terms of the said Public Resolution approved 
May 20th, 1918, was June 5th, 1918: 

Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United 
States, do call upon all male persons, either citizens of the 
United States or residing in the several States, or in the District 
of Columbia, who have, since the 5th day of June, 1918, and 
on or before the 24th day of August, 1918, attained their 
twenty-first birthday, to register in accordance with the above 
law and the regulations prescribed thereunder: Provided, 
however, That the following persons are hereby exempted from 
registration : Officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army, 
the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the National Guard and 
Naval Militia while in the service of the United States, and 
officers in the Officers' Reserve Corps and enlisted men in the 
Enlisted Reserve Corps while in active service. 

And I do further proclaim and give notice to every person 



State of New York — ■ Albany County 35 

subject to registration in the several States, and in the District 
of Columbia, in accordance with the above law, that the time 
and place of registration shall be between 7 a. m. and 9 p. m. 
on the 24th day of August, 1918, at the office of the Local 
Board having jurisdiction of the area wherein he permanently 
resides, or at such other place as shall be designated by public 
notice by such Local Board. 

And I do call upon the Governor of each of the several 
States, the Board of Commissioners of the District of 
Columbia, and all members of Local Boards and agents thereof 
appointed under the provision of the Act of Congress approved 
May 18, 1917, to perform certain duties in the execution of 
the foregoing law, which duties have been communicated to 
them directly in regulations prescribed under the terms of 
said Public Resolution. 

A day for registration in the Territories of Alaska, Hawaii, 
and Porto Rico, will be named in a later proclamation. 

As required by the regulations, every Local Board having 
jurisdiction in a city of 30,000 population or over will promptly 
cause the mayor thereof to be notified of the place or places 
designated for registration; every Local Board having juris- 
diction in a county, parish, or similar unit will promptly cause 
the clerk thereof to be notified of the place or places desig- 
nated for registration, and every Local Board having juris- 
diction in a State or Territory, the area of which is divided 
into divisions for the administration of the Act approved 
May 18, 1917, will promptly cause the clerks of the townships 
within its division to be notified of the place or places desig- 
nated for registration. 

And I do call upon every mayor, county clerk, or township 
clerk receiving such notification to have a list of said places 
of registration posted, and do charge him with the duty of 
having all persons making inquiry informed of the place or 
places at which they may register. 



36 The World War — Selective Service 

Any person who, on account of sickness, will be unable to 
present himself for registration may apply on or before the 
day of registration at the office of any Local Board for instruc- 
tions as to how he may register by agent. 

Any person who expects to be absent on the day designated 
for registration from the jurisdiction of the board in which 
he permanently resides may register by mail, but his regis- 
tration card must reach the Local Board having jurisdiction 
of the area wherein he permanently resides by the day herein 
named for registration. Any such person should apply as 
soon as practicable at the office of a Local Board for instruc- 
tions as to how he may register by mail. 

Any person who has no permanent residence must register 
at the place designated for registration by the Local Board 
having jurisdiction of the area wherein he may be on the day 
herein named for registration. 

Any person who, on account of absence at sea, or on account 
of absence without the territorial limits of the United States, 
may be unable to comply with the regulations pertaining to 
absentees, shall, within five days after reaching the first 
United States port, register with his proper Local Board or 
as provided in the regulations for other absentees. 

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and 
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. 

Done in the District of Columbia this thirteenth day 
of August in the year of our Lord one thousand 
[seal ] nine hundred and eighteen and of the inde- 
pendence of the United States of America the 
one hundred and forty- third. 

WOODROW WILSON 
By the President : 
Robert Lansing, 
Secretary of State. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

OF AMERICA 

A PROCLAMATION 



WHEREAS Congress has enacted and the President has, 
on the thirty-first day of August, one thousand nine 
hundred and eighteen, approved an Act amending the 
Act approved May eighteen, one thousand nine hundred and 
seventeen. 

AND WHEREAS said Act, as amended, contains the fol- 
lowing provisions : 

Sec. 5. That all male persons between the ages of eighteen 
and forty-five, both inclusive, shall be subject to registration 
in accordance with regulations to be prescribed by the Presi- 
dent, and upon proclamation by the President or other public 
notice given by him or by his direction stating the time or 
times and place or places of any such registration, it shall be 
the duty of all persons of the designated ages, except officers 
and enlisted men of the Regular Army; officers and enlisted 
men of the National Guard while in the service of the United 
States; officers of the Officers' Reserve Corps and enlisted 
men in the Enlisted Reserve Corps while in the service of the 
United States; officers and enlisted men of the Navy and 
Marine Corps; officers and enlisted and enrolled men of the 
Naval Reserve Force and Marine Corps Reserve while in the 
service of the United States; officers commissioned in the 
Army of the United States under the provisions of this Act; 
persons who, prior to any day set for registration by the 
President hereunder, have registered under the terms of this 
Act or under the terms of the resolution entitled " Joint 
resolution providing for the registration for military service 
of all male persons citizens of the United States and all male 
persons residing in the United States who have, since the 
fifth day of June, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and on or 

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before the day set for the registration by proclamation by the 
President, attained the age of twenty-one years, in accordance 
with such rules and regulations as the President may prescribe 
under the terms of the Act approved May eighteenth, nine- 
teen hundred and seventeen, entitled ' An Act to authorize 
the President to increase temporarily the Military Establish- 
ment of the United States,' ' approved May twentieth, 
nineteen hundred and eighteen, whether called for service or 
not; and diplomatic representatives, technical attaches of 
foreign embassies and legations, consuls general, consuls, vice 
consuls, and consular agents of foreign countries, residing in 
the United States, who are not citizens of the United States, 
to present themselves for and submit to registration under 
the provisions of this Act; and every such person shall be 
deemed to have notice of the requirements of this Act upon 
the publication of any such proclamation or any such other 
public notice as aforesaid given by the President or by his 
direction; and any person who shall willfully fail or refuse to 
present himself for registration or to submit thereto as herein 
provided shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon 
conviction in a district court of the United States having 
jurisdiction thereof, be punished by imprisonment for not 
more than one year and shall thereupon be duly registered: 
Provided, That in the call of the docket precedence shall be 
given, in courts trying the same, to the trial of criminal pro- 
ceedings under this Act : Provided further, That persons shall 
be subject to registration as herein provided who shall have 
attained their eighteenth birthday and who shall not have 
attained their forty-sixth birthday on or before the day set 
for the registration in any such proclamation by the President 
or any such other public notice given by him or by his direc- 
tion, and all persons so registered shall be and remain subject 
to draft into the forces hereby authorized unless exempted or 
excused therefrom as in this Act provided : Provided further, 
That the President may at such intervals as he may desire 
from time to time require all male persons who have attained 
the age of eighteen years since the last preceding date of 
registration and on or before the next date set for registration 
by proclamation by the President, except such persons as are 



State of New York — ■ Albany County 39 

exempt from registration hereunder, to register in the same 
manner and subject to the same requirements and liabilities 
as those previously registered under the terms hereof: And 
provided further, That in the case of temporary absence from 
actual place of legal residence of any person liable to regis- 
tration as provided herein, such registration may be made by 

mail under regulations to be prescribed by the President. 

* * * 

Sec. 6. That the President is hereby authorized to utilize 
the service of any or all departments and any or all officers 
or agents of the United States and of the several States, Terri- 
tories, and the District of Columbia, and subdivisions thereof, 
in the execution of this Act, and all officers and agents of the 
United States and of the several States, Territories, and sub- 
divisions thereof, and of the District of Columbia, and all 
persons designated or appointed under regulations prescribed 
by the President, whether such appointments are made by the 
President himself or by the governor or other officer of any 
State or Territory, to perform any duty in the execution of this 
Act are hereby required to perform such duty as the President 
shall order or direct, and all such officers and agents and persons 
so designated or appointed shall hereby have full authority 
for all acts done by them in the execution of this Act by the 
direction of the President. Correspondence in the execution 
of this Act may be carried in penalty envelopes bearing the 
frank of the War Department. Any person charged as herein 
provided with the duty of carrying into effect any of the 
provisions of this Act or the regulations made or directions 
given thereunder who shall fail or neglect to perform such 
duty, and any person charged with such duty or having and 
exercising any authority under said Act, regulations, or 
directions who shall knowingly make or be a party to the 
making of any false or incorrect registration, physical exam- 
ination, exemption, enlistment, enrollment, or muster; and 
any person who shall make or be a party to the making of 
any false statement or certificate as to the fitness or liability 
of himself or any other person for service under the provisions 
of this Act, or regulations made by the President thereunder, 
or otherwise evades or aids another to evade the requirements 



40 The World War — Selective Service 

of this Act or of said regulations, or who, in any manner, shall 
fail or neglect fully to perform any duty required of him in 
the execution of this Act, shall, if not subject to military law, 
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction in the district 
court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, be 
punished by imprisonment for not more than one year, or, 
if subject to military law, shall be tried by court-martial and 
suffer such punishment as a court-martial may direct. 

Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the 
United States, do call upon the Governor of each of the several 
States and Territories, the Board of Commissioners of the 
District of Columbia, and all members of Local Boards and 
agents thereof appointed under the provisions of said Act of 
Congress approved May eighteenth, one thousand nine hun- 
dred and seventeen, and all officers and agents of the several 
States and Territories, of the District of Columbia, and of the 
counties and municipalities therein, to perform certain duties 
in the execution of the foregoing law, which duties will be 
communicated to them directly in regulations of even date 
herewith. 

And I do further proclaim and give notice to every person 
subject to registration in the several States and in the District 
of Columbia, in accordance with the above law, that the time 
and place of such registration shall be between seven a. m. 
and nine p. m. on Thursday, the twelfth day of September, 
one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, at a registration 
place in the precinct wherein he then has his permanent home 
or at such other place as shall be designated by public notice 
by the Local Board having jurisdiction of the area wherein 
he then has his permanent home. All male persons in the 
United States who shall have attained their eighteenth birth- 
day and who shall not have attained their forty-sixth birthday 
on or before Thursday, the twelfth day of September, one 
thousand nine hundred and eighteen, the day herein named 
for registration, are required to register: Provided, however, 



State of New York — ■ Albany County 41 

That the following persons are hereby exempted from regis- 
tration, to wit: Persons who, prior to the day herein set for 
registration, have registered under the terms of the Act 
approved May 18, 1917, or under the terms of the Public 
Resolution of Congress approved May 20, 1918, whether 
called for service or not; officers and enlisted men of the 
Regular Army; officers commissioned in the Army of the 
United States, and men of the forces drafted, under the pro- 
visions of the Act approved May 18, 1917; officers and enlisted 
men of the National Guard while in the service of the United 
States; officers of the Officers' Reserve Corps and enlisted men 
in the Enlisted Reserve Corps while in the service of the 
United States; officers and enlisted men of the Navy and 
Marine Corps; officers and enlisted and enrolled men of the 
Naval Reserve Force and Marine Corps Reserve while in the 
service of the United States; and diplomatic representatives, 
technical attaches of foreign embassies and legations, consuls 
general, consuls, vice consuls, and consular agents of foreign 
countries, residing in the United States, who are not citizens 
of the United States. 

A day or days for registration in the territories of Alaska, 
Hawaii, and Porto Rico will be named in later proclamations. 

As required by the regulations, every Local Board having 
jurisdiction in a city of 30,000 population or over will promptly 
cause the mayor thereof to be notified of the place or places 
designated for registration; every Local Board having juris- 
diction in a county, parish, or similar unit will promptly cause 
the clerk thereof to be notified of the place or places desig- 
nated for registration, and every Local Board having juris- 
diction in a State or Territory the area of which is divided 
into divisions for the administration of the Act approved 
May 18, 1917, will promptly cause the clerks of the town- 
ships within its division to be notified of the place or places 
designated for registration. 



42 The World War — Selective Service 

And I do call upon every mayor, county clerk, or township 
clerk receiving such notification to have a list of said places 
of registration posted, and do charge him with the duty of 
having all persons making inquiry informed of the place or 
places at which they may register. 

Any person who, on account of sickness, will be unable to 
present himself for registration may apply on or before the 
day of registration at the office of any Local Board for instruc- 
tions as to how he may register by agent. 

Any person who expects to be absent on the day designated 
for registration from the jurisdiction of the board in which he 
then permanently resides may register by mail, but his regis- 
tration card must reach the Local Board having jurisdiction 
of the area wherein he then permanently resides by the day 
herein named for registration. Any such person should apply 
as soon as practicable at the office of a Local Board for instruc- 
tions as to how he may register by mail. 

Any person who has no permanent residence must register 
at the place designated for registration by the Local Board 
having jurisdiction of the area wherein he may be on the day 
herein named for registration. 

Any person who, on account of absence at sea, or on account 
of absence without the territorial limits of the United States, 
may be unable to comply with the regulations pertaining to 
absentees, shall, within five days after reaching the United 
States, register with his proper Local Board or as provided in 
the regulations for other absentees. 

Fifteen months ago the men of the country from twenty- 
one to thirty years of age were registered. Three months 
ago, and again this month, those who had just reached the 
age of twenty-one were added. It now remains to include 
all men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five. 

This is not a new policy. A century and a quarter ago it 
was deliberately ordained by those who were then responsible 



State of New York — ■ Albany County 43 

for the safety and defense of the Nation that the duty of mili- 
tary service should rest upon all able-bodied men between the 
ages of eighteen and forty-five. We now accept and fulfill 
the obligation which they established, an obligation expressed 
in our national statutes from that time until now. We 
solemnly purpose a decisive victory of arms and deliberately 
to devote the larger part of the military manpower of the 
Nation to the accomplishment of that purpose. 

The younger men have from the first been ready to go. 
They have furnished voluntary enlistments out of all propor- 
tion to their numbers. Our military authorities regard them 
as having the highest combatant qualities. Their youthful 
enthusiasm, their virile eagerness, their gallant spirit of daring 
make them the admiration of all who see them in action. 
They covet not only the distinction of serving in this great 
war but also the inspiring memories which hundreds of thou- 
sands of them will cherish through the years to come of a great 
day and of a great service for their country and for mankind. 

By the men of the older group now called upon, the oppor- 
tunity now opened to them will be accepted with the calm 
resolution of those who realize to the full the deep and solemn 
significance of what they do. Having made a place for them- 
selves in their respective communities, having assumed at 
home the graver responsibilities of life in many spheres, 
looking back upon honorable records in civil and industrial 
life, they will realize as perhaps no others could, how entirely 
their own fortunes and the fortunes of all whom they love are 
put at stake in this war for right, and will know that the very 
records they have made render this new duty the commanding 
duty of their lives. They know how surely this is the Nation's 
war, how imperatively it demands the mobilization and 
massing of all our resources of every kind. They will regard 
this call as the supreme call of their day and will answer it 
accordingly. 



44 The World War — Selective Service 

Only a portion of those who register will be called upon to 
bear arms. Those who are not physically fit will be excused; 
those exempted by alien allegiance; those who should not be 
relieved of their present responsibilities; above all, those who 
can not be spared from the civil and industrial tasks at home 
upon which the success of our armies depends as much as 
upon the fighting at the front. But all must be registered in 
order that the selection for military service may be made 
intelligently and with full information. This will be our final 
demonstration of loyalty, democracy, and the will to win, our 
solemn notice to all the world that we stand absolutely together 
in a common resolution and purpose. It is the call to duty to 
which every true man in the country will respond with pride 
and with the consciousness that in doing so he plays his part 
in vindication of a great cause at whose summons every true 
heart offers its supreme service. 

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and 
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. 

Done in the District of Columbia this thirty-first 

day of August in the year of our Lord one 
[seal.] thousand nine hundred and eighteen and of the 

independence of the United States of America, 

the one hundred and forty- third. 

WOODROW WILSON 
By the President : 

Robert Lansing, 

Secretary of Sta'.e. 



SELECTIVE SERVICE 



ON May 18, 1917, Congress approved the Selective 
Service Law: " An Act to authorize the President to 
increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the 
United States." 

This Act provided that all other forces beyond what was 
supplied by the Regular Army and the National Guard be 
raised and maintained by selective draft exclusively. " Such 
draft as herein provided shall be based upon liability to 
military service of all male citizens or male persons not alien 
enemies who have declared their intention to become citizens, 
between the ages of twenty-one and thirty years, both inclus- 
ive, and shall take place and be maintained under such regula- 
tions as the President may prescribe not inconsistent with the 
terms of this Act." 

The following steps in the execution of the Selective Service 
Law were prescribed : 

1. The registration. 

2. The creation and organization of local and district boards 

to consider the various questions of exemption and 
discharge arising under the law and the Regulations, 
to continue with necessary registrations, and to execute 
the other provisions of the law until the men have been 
finally selected for service. 

3. The determination of the order in which registered men 

shall be called up for examination and selected for 
military service. 

4. The assignment of quotas and the allotment of credits to 

the several States, Territories, and the District of 
Columbia and the subdivisions thereof. 

5. The examination, in the order determined, of a sufficient 

number of registered men in each subdivision to fill 

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46 The World War — Selective Service 

the quota to go to the colors, and cover the exemption, 
partial exemption, exclusion, or discharge of those who 
are not to be selected for military service. 
6. The notification to those selected for military service of 
the date upon which they must report to be assembled 
and sent to mobilization camps and the assembling of 
men selected for the military service and their trans- 
portation to mobilization camps. 

On June 5, 1917, all males as provided in the statute were 
registered. 

This date will never be forgotten. It will be recalled as a 
day of days — the day when ten millions of the young man- 
hood of the United States offered themselves to their country's 
holy cause. This registration was followed by others: 
June 5, 1918, for all who had become twenty-one years of 
age since first registration; August 24, 1918, for all who had 
reached the age of twenty-one since June 5, 1918; Septem- 
ber 12, 1918, for all males between ages of eighteen and forty- 
five. 

The plan followed in carrying out the above steps was as 
follows : 

1. The registration being completed and the registration 
cards being ready for use in further proceedings, the President 
will appoint with the power of removal the members of the 
local and district boards. 

2. One local board, consisting of three or more members, 
will be appointed by the President for each county having 
less than 45,000 population (one local board being, when 
desirable, added for each additional 30,000 population) and 
one local board for each city of 30,000 population or over 
(one local board being added when desirable for approximately 
each additional 30,000 population). In certain States the 
States will be split up into divisions, with a local board for 
each division. 



State of New York — Albany County 47 

3. One or more district boards consisting of as many mem- 
bers as may be desired shall be appointed by the President in 
each Federal judicial district of the United States, one in each 
Territory, and one in the District of Columbia. 

4. The duties and functions of the local boards are prescribed 
by statute and are briefly: (a) taking the necessary steps for 
determining the order of liability for service of those regis- 
tered, and (b) examining those called for service to determine 
whether they shall be exempted, discharged, or accepted 
for service. 

5. The duties and functions of the district boards are also 
prescribed by statute and are briefly: (a) deciding appeals 
(which may be taken either by or in respect of the person 
being examined or by the government) from the decisions of 
the local boards on matters falling under the jurisdiction of 
such boards, and (b) passing upon claims for discharge because 
of the relationship of the one making the claim to " industries, 
including agriculture, found to be necessary to the maintenance 
of the Military Establishment, or the effective operation of 
the military forces, or the maintenance of national interest 
during the emergency." 

And so there was built up under the marvelous supervision 
of General Crowder a great Selective Draft machine composed 
of the following personnel : 

Personnel of Draft Organization 

Governors 54 

Adjutant generals 49 

Assistant adjutant generals 49 

Medical aids 49 

District board members 1 ,039 

Industrial advisers 411 

Local board members 14,416 

Government appeal agents 4,679 

Examining physicians 12,039 

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48 The World War — Selective Service 

Legal advisory members 10,915 

Associate legal advisers 108,367 

Medical advisers 9, 577 

Boards of instruction members 16,055 

Clerks 14,999 

Total 192,698 



Perhaps nothing finer in the way of commentary on the 
work of the Selective Service organization has been said than 
is found in the following excerpts from General Crowder's 
report : 

"It is true that the raising of the army by the Selective 
Draft was a measure which touched every home, every shop, 
every factory, and every farm in the country; and, therefore, 
there was a natural and universal popular interest in the 
processes of the draft. Nevertheless, this popular interest 
might have been that of mere curiosity, or it might have been 
one of sullen distrust or resistant hostility. In fact, it was 
one of active sympathy and desire to help. The obvious 
fairness of the system; its direct relation to the raising of the 
army, and, therefore, to the winning of the war, and the 
opportunity for service which it presented to those who were 
not qualified to give direct help to the fighting forces in other 
ways — these features enabled the system to rely upon the 
voluntary assistance of thousands upon thousands of men and 
women who gladly ' did their bit ' to help raise the army. 

" As one surveys the ever- widening circles of citizens who 
thus contributed in the work of the system, the boundaries 
become more indefinite between the various groups of persons 
who gave their help for a longer or shorter time, until finally 
the numbers become countless. The closing impression left 
upon the mind is one of profound gratitude and satisfaction — 
gratitude for the destiny which has given us an entire people 



State of New York — Albany County 49 

united in hearty support of the war, and satisfaction in the 
revelation that a peaceful nation, ambitious only for its own 
prosperity and happiness, can none the less be relied upon in 
time of national danger to devote itself to the task of raising 
a defensive army." 

" We are now," continues General Crowder in his report, 
" too close to the events of the war to assess them accurately. 
How great a part the American Selective Service played in 
the drama of the world war history alone can tell. 

" That a new and untried scheme of selection could succeed 
at all was to many doubtful; that it should attain results 
beyond the fondest dreams of its most ardent supporters was 
unbelievable. To enroll for service 24,000,000 men, to mobil- 
ize a selected army of more than 2,800,000, a million of them 
in ninety days; to have presently available for military duty 
2,000,000 additional men; to classify this vast man power in 
the order of its military and industrial importance so as to 
preserve the domestic and industrial life of the nation, to 
speed up war-time activities, to maintain them in a state of 
maximum efficient production, and to pave the way to a 
speedy return to normal peace-time pursuits while recruiting 
the full fighting strength of the nation — these are results that 
would be instantly rejected as impossible did not the actual 
facts stand as irrefutable testimonials to their accomplish- 
ment." 

General Crowder points out that 118,541 men were ordered 
before the draft boards under the " work or fight " regulations. 
Of these 54,313 immediately transferred their activities to the 
necessary industries, 13,777 were certified to district boards for 
final action, and 50,451 cases were awaiting decision when the 
war ended. These 118,541 men included 43,551 men employed 
in food or drink service, 9,745 doormen and door attendants, 
8,950 employees in amusement industries, 8,556 domestic ser- 
vants, 40,405 in clerical work, 7,334 were listed as " idle." 



50 The World War — Selective Service 



Total Registration in 
Age 
18 


United States by Ages 

Number 
939,875 


19 


761 , 007 


20 


757,791 


21 


958,739 


22 


1,018,407 


23 


978,975 


24 


1,010,287 


25 


997,544 


26 


967,576 


27 


956,404 


28 


960,460 


29 


974,555 


30 


948,857 


31.... 


1,043,492 


32 


499,902 


33 


927,968 


34 


920,355 


35 


804,778 


36 


813,581 


37 


823,150 


38 


836,280 


39 


724,416 


40 


688,918 


41 


648,599 


42 


693,657 


43 


654,915 


44 


624,129 


45 


688,002 


Age unknown 


284,867 






Total 


23,907,486 







State of New York — ■ Albany County 51 

Absolutely no Friction 

" That this vast labor should have been accomplished with- 
out friction and without the slightest manifestation of antag- 
onism on the part of any disturbing elements is in itself a 
complete vindication of the loyalty of the American people. It 
moved with the smoothness of the perfectly adjusted machine. 
In contrast to the riots and bloodshed attendant upon the 
enrollment under the civil war Draft act the cheerful and 
eager submission of the nation to the assumption of its mili- 
tary obligation is a glorious monument to the unselfish spon- 
taneity of its patriotism. 

" The classification of the 24,000,000 registrants proceeded 
rapidly. By November 1, 1918, this labor had been substan- 
tially completed, and the boards took up the work of classify- 
ing the eighteen-year-old men and those above 36 years. 
Their labors were completed before December 10, 1918, when 
the records of the boards were sealed and their activities 
ended. 

" I would be remiss in the performance of a public duty did 
I not, at this point, accord the credit which is so richly due to 
the war Governors and their several State Headquarters, the 
155 district boards, the 4,648 local boards, the 1,319 medical 
advisory boards, the 3,646 legal advisory boards, as well as 
their auxiliary agencies of Government appeal agents, examin- 
ing physicians, boards of instruction, and other civilian and 
enlisted assistants, upon whom has fallen the great strain of 
the task that has been accomplished. No labor has been so 
onerous and no demand so exacting but that it has been per- 
formed with a zeal and dispatch that are unparalleled in the 
history of free peoples. Without adequate compensation, often 
at great financial sacrifice, the members of the local adminis- 
trative organizations have bent themselves to their tasks with 
a devotion that spells the imperishability of our democratic 
institutions. 



52 The World J far — Selective Service 

"lam certain that no great national undertaking was ever 
begun which depended so utterly upon faith in a people for 
its execution; and undoubtedly no faith has ever been more 
completely justified and no confidence more abundantly 
rewarded." 

How the machinery of the Selective Draft operated in 
Albany County will appear in the following pages. 




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DISTRICT BOARD NO. 2 

Counties of: Albany, Delaware, Montgomery, Otsego, 
Rensselaer, Schenectady, and Schoharie. 
Local Boards : Twenty-four in number. 
Total Registration: 129,980 registrants. 
Total cases handled by Board: 23,830 claims. 

Organized, August 13th, 1917. 

Board Members 
George Dugan, D.D., Chairman, 30 Manning Boulevard, 

Albany. 
Arthur C. Wyer, Secretary, Delhi. 
Charles Stover, M.D., Amsterdam. 
Carleton H. Lewis, 469 State St., Schenectady. 
William A. Wick, 1108 Union St., Schenectady. 
James Hilton, Voorheesville. 
W. L. L. Peltz, 82 State St., Albany. 
Stanton P. Hull, M.D., served from August 13th, 1917 to 

April 3rd, 1918. 

Chief Clerk: 

James G. McGrath, Albany, from August 13th, 1917 to 

April 30th, 1918. 
Frank W. Douglas, 52 N. Allen St., Albany, from April 
30th, 1918 to December 31st, 1918. 

Stenographer: 

Margaret M. Galvin, 161 Franklin St., Albany. 

Clerks: 

Mary A. Berrigan, 114 Clinton Ave., Albany. 
Nan Buckley, 235 Madison Ave., Albany. 
Jane Farley, 290 Clinton Ave., Albany. 
Edward F. Hanlon, Albany. 
Louis Hering, 30 Elm St., Albany. 
Lee Hopper, Delmar. 
Bessie Jones, 123 N. Pearl St., Albany. 
Edna Murphy, 36 Lancaster St., Albany. 

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54 The World War — Selective Service 

Clerks — Concluded 

Ellen Murphy, 36 Lancaster St., Albany. 

Catherine O'Connor, 475 Broadway, Watervliet. 

Jennie Qua, N. Allen St., Albany. 

Dorothy Sheppy, Albany. 

Frances Silverstein, Albany. 

Katherine Watkins, 52 N. Allen St., Albany. 

First Registration: August 13th to November 25th, 1917. 

Appeals 442 

Decision of Local Boards affirmed 274 

Decision of Local Boards reversed 168 

Industrial and agricultural claims 625 

Granted — Agricultural 160 

Industrial 135 

Denied 330 

Second Registration: December 1st, 1917 to October 1st, 
1918. 

Appeals 2131 

Decision of Local Boards affirmed 915 

Reclassified : 

In Class 2 293 

In Class 3 156 

In Class 4 699 

In Class 5 68 

Industrial and Agricultural Claims 11, 644 

Denied 2,950 

Agricultural — Class 2 1 ,891 

Class 3 1,254 

Class 4 1,402 

Industrial — Class 2 2,860 

Class 3 1,218 

Class 4 69 

Third Registration 

Appeals 167 

Denied 112 



State of New York — Albany County 55 

Third Registration — Concluded 

Re-classified — Class 2 9 

Class 3 27 

Class 4 3 

Class 5 1 

Industrial and Agricultural Claims 8 , 784 

Denied 970 

Agricultural — Class 2 936 

Class 3 140 

Class 4 170 

Industrial — Class 2 923 

Class 3 109 

Class 4 34 

Cases returned without action after Novem- 
ber 20th, 1918 5,560 

Cost Basis 
Cost per case, First Registration, August 13th 

to December 1, 1917 $6.14 per case 

Cost per case, Second Registration, December 

1st, 1917 to October 1st, 1918 72| per case 

Cost per case, Third Registration, October 1st, 

1918 to December 1st, 1918 38f per case 




James S. Clute 

John F. McGarrahan, M. D 



Local Board Albany County No. 1 

Napoleon Favreau 



Henry A. Strong 
Harry M. Sweet 



LOCAL BOARD NO. 1, ALBANY COUNTY 

Organized July 12th, 1917 

Board Members: 

Henry A. Strong, Chairman, Cohoes 

Napoleon Favreau, Chairman, appointed to fill vacancy 

of Henry A. Strong, who died November 11th, 1917 
Napoleon Favreau, Secretary, Cohoes. 
James S. Clute, Secretary, Cohoes, appointed to fill 

vacancy of Napoleon Favreau who was appointed to 

fill Mr. Strong's place 
Harry M. Sweet, Secretary, Cohoes, appointed to fill 

vacancy of James S. Clute, resigned 
John F. McGarrahan, M.D., Cohoes, Physician Member 

Chief Clerk : 

Catherine C. Donovan, 178 Remsen St., Cohoes. 

Clerks: 

Anna B. McCann, August 1, 1917, to April 1, 1918 
Abram W. Lansing, Cohoes, October 1, 1918, to Septem- 
ber, 1919 
Private John F. Phelan, October 5, 1918, to December 26, 
1918 

Assistant Examining Physicians: 

Harry B. Gillen, M.D., Seneca St., Cohoes 
James H. Mitchell, Jr., M.D., 268 Main St., Cohoes 
Edward M. Bell, M.D., Ontario St., Cohoes 
William M. Campbell, M.D., Remsen St., Cohoes 
John W. Ross, M.D., Mohawk St., Cohoes 

June 5th, 1917, Registration 

Registration 2 ,055 

White 2,051 

Colored 4 



58 The World War — ■ Selective Service 

Total Class 1 445 

Total Class 2 63 

Total Class 3 132 

Total Class 4 632 

Total Class 5 648 

Ordered to entrain 116 

Rejected at Camp 8 

Classification List 

Cancellations (dead) 9 

State Headquarters 2 

Ordered to entrain 377 

Failed to report to Camp 

Accepted at Camp 354 

Rejected at Camp 23 

Reported Delinquents 30 

Not Classified 4 

Forwarded to District Board 133 

Returned by District Board 133 

Forwarded to President 

Not Examined 1 ,340 

Physically examined 599 

Limited Service 74 

Remediable Defectives 23 

General Military Service 346 

Noncombatants 

Emergency Fleet 7 

June 5, 1918 and August 24, 1918, Registration 

Registration 203 

White 203 

Total Class 1 96 

Total Class 2 11 

Total Class 3 16 

Total Class 4 16 

Total Class 5 64 



State of New York — Albany County 59 

Ordered to entrain 66 

Accepted at camp 56 

Rejected at camp 10 

Forwarded to District Board 19 

Returned by District Board 19 

Physically examined 122 

Limited Service 20 

Remediable Defectives 1 

General Service 34 

September, 1918, Registration 
19 to 36 years 37 to 45 years 18 years 

Class 1 512 Class 1 1 Class 1 6 

Class 2 30 ... 

Class 3 46 Class 3 6 

Class 4 501 Class 4 1 

Class 5 259 Class 5 6 



Total 1 ,348 Total 1 Total 19 

Unclassified 1 , 404 

Total number of September, 1918, Registrants. . . . 2,772 





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John D. White, Secretary, James T. Young, Chairman, William B. Sabin, M. D. 

John L. Haswell, Chief Clerk, Mary F. Corcoran, Stenographer. 



LOCAL BOARD NO. 2, ALBANY COUNTY 

Members: 

James T. Young, Chairman, Water vliet 
John D. White, Secretary, Altamont 
Dr. William B. Sabin, Watervliet 

Chief Clerk: 

John L. Haswell, Watervliet 

Stenographers : 

Miss Marie Stout, July, 1917, to December 1, 1917. 
Mrs. Caddick, December 1, 1917, to January 1, 1918. 
Miss Etta Blumenthal, January 1, 1918 to June 1, 1918. 
Miss Mary F. Corcoran, June 1, 1918, to January 1, 1919. 

Assistant Examining Physicians: 
Dr. Robert J. O'Brien 
Dr. L. B. Rulison 
Dr. J. W. Burns 
Dr. Thomas Deveny 
Dr. J. E. Armstrong 
Dr. B. T. Baker 
Dr. J. P. Sheehan ) Dentist 
Dr. E. L. Jones J 

Board of Instruction: 

Rev. Peter J. Donnelly, Chairman 
Rev. George A. Perry 
N. J. Walker 
F. W. Crumb 

June 5, 1917, Registration 

Registration 2 , 365 

White 2,363 

Colored 2 

Docket Book 

Cancellation (death) 2 

Failed to report for Physical Examination 15 

Ordered to entrain 134 

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Rejected at Camp 17 

Failed to Report to Camp 

Classification List 

Cancellation (death) 13 

Cancellation (State Headquarters) 1 

Ordered to entrain 448 

Failed to report to Camp 

Accepted at Camp 407 

Rejected at Camp 46 

Delinquents 68 

Not Classified 1 

Forwarded to District Board 419 

Returned by District Board 419 

Forwarded to President 

Physically examined 716 

Limited Service 68 

Remediable Defectives 26 

General Military Service 421 

Noncombatants 

Emergency Fleet 9 

Colored 

General Military Service 1 

Delinquents 1 

Second and Third Registration, June 5th, August 24th, 

1918 

Registration 238 

White 237 

Colored 1 

Cancellations (death) 

Cancellations (State Headquarters) 

Ordered to entrain 80 

Failed to report to Camp 

Accepted at Camp 75 

Rejected at Camp 5 

Delinquents 

Forwarded to District Board 44 

Returned by District Board 44 



State of New York — Albany County 63 

Forwarded to President 

Physically examined 158 

Limited Service 4 

Remediable Defectives 3 

General Military Service 97 

Noncombatants 

Emergency Fleet 1 

Colored 

General Military Service 1 

September, 1918, Registration 
19 to 36 years 37 to 45 years 18 years 

Class 1 467 Class 1 207 

Class 2 85 

Class 3 94 Class 3 5 

Class 4 596 Class 4 1 

Class 5 157 Cases Pending. 1 ,656 Class 5 10 



Total. . . . 1,399 Total 1,656 Total 223 

Total number of September, 1918, Registrants 3 , 278 




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LOCAL BOARD NO. 3, ALBANY COUNTY 

Board Members 
Frederick Townsend Loudonville Chairman- 
Rev. Jacob Van Ess Delmar Secretary- 

Dr. Wallace E. Deitz .... Berne Examining Physician- 

Dr. Alonzo T. Powell, suc- 
cessor to Dr. Deitz. . . . Coeymans. . .Examining Physician. 

Assistant Examining Physicians 
Dr. Frederick L. Classen. . . 315 Hamilton St., Albany. 

Dr. Eddie S. Haswell 496 Madison Ave., Albany. 

Dr. Harry Drake 525 Clinton Ave., Albany. 

Dr. S. Wallace Todd 440 Delaware Ave., Albany. 

Dr. T. Ordway 58 Eagle St., Albany. 

Dr. Howard Van Rensselaer. 123 State St., Albany. 

Chief Clerk 
William J. Killea, Jr 463 Hudson Ave., Albany. 

Additional Clerical Workers 

Miss May Stetson Loudonville, 

Miss Maude Bevins Granville. 

Miss Carolyn Planz 25 Quail St., Albany. 

Prvt. Irving L. Isdell Delmar. 

Lucius H. Washburn Delmar. 

David L. Kirk Delmar. 

Mrs. William B. Phipps .... Delmar. 

William B. Phipps Delmar. 

Mrs. Tibbits Delmar. 

Volunteer Workers 

Fred Rosboro Delmar. 

Miss Janet Kimmey Delmar. 

LeRoy Arnold Delmar. 

George Yeager Delmar. 

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66 The World War — Selectice Service 

Bayard C. Clow Delmar. 

Thomas Judge 300 No. Pearl St., Albany. 

Luciano Polverelli Ravena. 

Gerrit Y. Lansing 294 State St., Albany. 

Mrs. Gerrit Y. Lansing 294 State St., Albany. 

Jerry Barker Albany. 

W. J. Van Wormer Delmar. 

Miss Jean Roach 468 Livingston Ave., Albany. 

Miss Frances Kibbee Loudon ville. 

Clyde Ball Berne. 

Arthur T. Tompkins Berne. 

Mrs. John C. Patten Loudonville. 

Miss Helen Weaver Loudonville. 

Miss Frances Sheehan 457 Clinton Ave., Albany. 

Stephen W. Mosher Ravena. 

Ages 21-30, June 5, 1917 to September 11, 1918. Summary 

Card No. 1 
Item 

Registration 1 , 976 

White 1,953 

Colored 23 

Docket Book 

Cancellations 

Failed to report for physical examination 52 

Ordered to entrain 146 

Rejected at Camp 20 

Failed to report at Camp 4 

Classification List 

Cancellations (death) 3 

Cancellations (age) 4 

Ordered to entrain 339 

Failed to report 4 

Accepted at Camp 295 

Rejected at Camp 13 

Reported Delinquents 46 

Forwarded to District Board 409 

Returned by District Board 409 

Not physically examined 46 



State of New York — Albany County 67 

Physically examined 404 

Special or Limited Service 83 

Remediable Defectives 18 

General Military Service 303 

Emergency Fleet 9 

Colored 

Not physically examined 3 

Physically examined 13 

Special or Limited Service 2 

General Military Service 11 

Class One 453 

Class Two 178 

Class Three 95 

Class Four 743 

Class Five 377 

Total 1,846 

Sent under old system, ruled off 130 

Total Registration 1 ,976 

Age 21, June 5 and August 24, 1918, (2 and 3 Registration) 
Summary Card No. 1 
Item 

Registration 185 

White 180 

Colored 5 

Classification List 

Cancellations (death) 1 

Ordered to entrain 58 

Accepted at Camp 40 

Rejected at Camp 9 

Delinquents 1 

Forwarded to District Board 72 

Returned by District Board 72 

Not examined physically 1 

Physically examined 84 

Special or Limited Service 5 



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Remediable Defectives 8 

General Military Service 71 

Colored 

Not physically examined 1 

Physically examined 4 

General Military Service 4 

Class One 85 

Class Two 47 

Class Three 14 

Class Four 12 

Class Five 27 



Total Registration 185 

Class of September, 1918, Registration 

19 to 36 years 37 to 45 years 18 years 

Class 1 341 Class 1 3 Class 1 133 

Class 2 250 Class 2 3 Class 2 

Class 3 42 Class 3 3 Class 3 5 

Class 4 450 Class 4 13 Class 4 1 

Class 5 123 Class 5 6 Class 5 2 

Pending. . . . 1 ,549 Pending 7 



Total 1,206 Total.... 1,577 Total 148 

Total number of September, 1918, Registrants 2,931 

Total number of Registrants, all classes and ages. . . . 5,092 

CASUALTY LIST 

KILLED IN ACTION 

Name Address Entrained Camp 
Peter George 553 Third St., Al- 
bany, N. Y 4/ 5/18 Camp Dix, N. J. 

Nathaniel A. 

Blanchard Delmar, N. Y 5/24/18 Camp Wadsworth S. C. 

12/14/17 Camp Devens, Mass. 
9/22/17 Camp Devens, Mass. 
7/28/17 Paris Island, S. C. 
9/22/17 Camp Devens, Mass. 
5/25/18 Camp Wadsworth S. C. 



Stanley Honsinger . . . Watervliet, N. Y . 

Fred Jacob Irons West Berne, N. Y 

Clifton Flagler Berne, N. Y 

Ernest Applebee Greenville, N. Y. . 

Ira Van Hoesen Coeymans, N. Y. . 

Jan Mokoski West Albany, N.Y Marines. 




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LOCAL BOARD NO. 1, ALBANY CITY 
Organized July 5th, 1917. 

Board Members 

Prof. Theodore C. Hailes, Chairman 

Charles H. Turner, Secretary 

Joseph A. Cox, M.D. 

Daniel V. O'Leary, M.D., appointed July 13th, 1917, to 

fill vacancy of Dr. Cox, resigned, on account of his 

being Major in New York State Guard. 

Assistant Medical Examiners: 
Edmond J. O'Donnell, M.D. 
John O'Keefe, M.D. 
Edward Stapleton, M.D. 

Chief Clerk : 

James G. McGrath 

John J. Murphy, appointed August 8th, 1917, to succeed 
James G. McGrath, resigned 

Stenographer : 

Miss Helen C. McCann 

Clerks: 

Mrs. Marion G. White 
Miss Jane A. Farley 
Miss Ellen R. Murphy 
Miss Edna F. Murphy 
Miss Elizabeth P. Jones 
Miss Helen Page 
Miss Laura C. Mullens 
Miss Jean Davis 
Miss Anna White 
Miss Anna Glen 
Prof. Charles J. Hailes 
Prof. Austin Coulson 
Edward C. Mclntyre 



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Limited Service Clerk: 
Edward S. Risley 

The following assisted this Board at various times without 
compensation : 

Miss Louise V. McCann 
Mr. Frederick Easton 
Mr. Thomas J. Barker 
Prof. Patrick H. McQuade 
Mr. Daniel J. McCann 

STATISTICS 
Ages 21-30. June 5, 1917 to September 11, 1918. First 

Registration 

Summary Card No. 1 

Column Item Total 

1 Registration 3,355 

2 White 3,297 

3 Colored .. . . 55 

4 Indian 1 

5 Oriental 2 

Docket Book 

6 Cancellations (death) 

7 Cancellations (State Headquarters) 

8 Failed to report for physical examination 33 

9 Ordered to entrain 75 

10 Rejected at Camp 9 

11 Failed to report to Camp 

Classification List 

12 Cancellations (Death) 5 

13 Cancellations (State Headquarters) 9 

14 Ordered to entrain 829 

15 Failed to report to Camp 8 

16 Accepted at Camp 744 



State of New York — Albany County 71 

Item 

17 Rejected at Camp 54 

18 Reported Delinquents 230 

19 Not classified 

20 Forwarded to District Board 275 

21 Returned by District Board 275 

22 Forwarded President 

23 Returned by President 

24 Not physically examined 9 

25 Physically examined 1 . 122 

26 Special or Limited Service 383 

27 Remediable Defectives 88 

28 General Military Service 671 

29 Noncombatants 

29§ Emergency Fleet 12 

24c Not physically examined (Colored) 1 

25c Physically examined (Colored) 54 

26c Special or Limited Service (Colored) 6 

27c Remediable Defectives (Colored) 1 

28c General Military Service (Colored) 15 

LOCAL BOARD STATISTICS 

Age 21. June 5 and August 24, 1918. Second and 

Third Registrations 

Summary Card No. 1 

Column Item Total 

1. Registration 247 

2. White 243 

3. Colored 2 

4. Indian 

5. Oriental 2 

Docket Book 

No Docket Book for June 5 and August 24, 1918 Regis- 
trants. 

Classification List 

12. Cancellations (death) 

13. Cancellations (State Headquarters) 



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14. Ordered to entrain 48 

15. Failed to report to camp 

16. Accepted at camp 39 

17. Rejected at camp 5 

18. Reported delinquents 4 

19. Not classified 

20. Forwarded to District Board 

21. Returned by District Board 

22. Forwarded President 

23. Returned by President 

24. Not physically examined 6 

25. Physically examined 127 

26. Special or limited service 42 

27. Remediable defectives 9 

28. General military service 76 

29. Noncombatants 

29^. Emergency fleet 

24c. Not physically examined (colored) 

25c. Physically examined (colored) 2 

26c. Special or limited service (colored) 

27c. Remediable defectives (colored) 

28c. General military service (colored) 2 

September 12th, 1918. 4th Registration 

Column Total 

1 Registration 4224 

2 White 4119 

3 Colored 77 

4 Indian 

5 Oriental 28 

19 to 36 years 37 to 45 years 18 years 

Class 1 666 Class 1 142 

Class 2 42 Class 2 2 

Class 3 98 Class 3 5 

Class 4 644 

Class 5 274 Class 5 10 

Total 1,724 Total 159 



STATUS OF REGISTRANTS 



Col. I 



Class of June, 1917 



Col. II 



Class of September, 1918 



for future 
physically 



Cancellation and Death 

General Service men available 
calls finally classified and 
qualified 

Limited Service men available for future 
calls 

Remediable groups 

Emergency Fleet 

Delinquents (not yet become deserters) 

Deserters (not accepted at camp) 

' A — Before Local Board 

B — Before Medical Advisory 
Board 

f ' § §. I C — Before District Board on 
a { appeal 

Inducted and sent to camp (including ac- 
cepted deserters) 

Called for induction on all pending calls .... 



Line 



Last call received* I 

Total Class I I 12 



White Colored 



Id 



16 

283 

85 

13 



220 

6 



762 



17 



1,395 



Class of June, 

1918 
(inc. Aug. 24th) 



White I Colored 



33 

42 

7 
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40 



35 



132 



Col. Ill 



19 to 36 years, 
inc. 



White Colored 



225 



17 



64 



292 



2.'] 



645 



Col. IV 



37 to 45 years, 
inc. 



White Colored 



21 



Col. V 



18 years 



White Colored 



3 


20 

124 



141 



Col. VI 
(Space reserved 
for future 
registration) 



Class of. 



White Colored 



Class I 
Class II. 
Class III. 
Class IV. 
Class V. 



Total, combining white and colored, 



Total cases finally classified . 



1,430 

80 

175 

930 

685 



134 

3 

24 

17 

61 



666 

42 

98 

644 

274 



3,300 



239 



1,724 



142 

2 

5 



10 



159 



[ Cases pending ) On original jurisdiction 
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Total registrants (excluding cancellations) 22 

(Should equal total of lines 18, 19, 20, and 21.) 



3,300 



239 



1,724 



159 







Class of 
June, 1917 


Class of 
June, 1918 
(Including 
. Aug. 24) 


Class of September, 1918 


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Class of 






Class of 
June, 1917 


Class of 
June, 1918 
(including 
August 24) 


Class of September, 1918 


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Class of 


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Ages 
19 to 36, inc. 


Ages 
37 to 45, inc. 


Age 18 


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Ages 
19 to 36, 
inclusive 


Ages 
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inclusive 


Age 18 












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44 


136 






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4 

3 

195 

38 

268 

156 

19 







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19 

19 
20 
2 



5 


1 

19 

146 

98 

5 










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1,428 


142 


666 




142 












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1 
8 


46 
25 




1 


39 





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9 

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2 





















685 


61 


274 




10 




















SUMMARIZATION 








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Class of 
June, 1917 


Class of 
June, 1918 
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Class of September, 1918 










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175 

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42 

98 

644 

274 




142 

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175 


24 


98 




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3,298 


247 


1,724 




159 












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State of New York — ■ Albany County 73 

The More Important Defects Found in Rejected Men. 

(Not all of these defects are disqualifying as some have more 
than one defect.) 

Nervous and Mental 21 

Insane 10 

Epilepsy 3 

Hysteria 1 

Imbecile 2 

Neuraesthenia 4 

Nervous due to Depressed Fracture 1 

Drug Addicts 5 

Skin 10 

Eczema 3 

Psoriasis 5 

Lupus 1 

Multiple Tumors 1 

Arm 11 

Missing 2 

Atrophy 2 

Chr. Dislocation 2 

Sarcoma of Elbow 1 

Fractured Elbow 2 

Clavicle Fracture 1 

Limited Motion with no Cause Assigned 1 

Hand 5 

Missing : 3 

Deformed 2 

Fingers 17 

Deformed Ankylosed 

Fingers 4 

Missing 13 

Knee 7 

Ankylosis 3 

Chr. Synovitis 4 



74 The World War — Selective Service 

Ankle ! 4 

Illiterate 3 

Underweight 86 

Under Height 38 

Obesity 6 

Spine 13 

Oscalcis Fractured 1 

Scoliosis 8 

Kyphosis 4 

Paralysis 5 

Hemaplegia 2 

Opthalmoplegia 1 

Paralysed Right Foot 1 

Freidrichs ataxia 

Kidneys 6 

Chr. Cystitis 1 

Chr. Parenchymatous 

Nephritis 4 

Floating Kidney 1 

Intestinal Tract 19 

Proctitis 1 

Fistula 3 

Hemorrhoids 13 

Appendicitis 2 

Leg 28 

Missing 2 

Atrophy 10 

Short Legs 7 

Loose Patella 1 

Tumor 1 

Varicose Veins 7 

Toes 22 

Rigid Hammertoes 3 

Deficient 11 

Web 1 

Missing Toes 6 

Polydactylism 1 



State of New York — Albany County 75 

Foot 44 

Flat 40 

Club 3 

Rheumatoid Arthritis 1 

Eyes 100 

Defective Vision 95 

Trachoma 2 

Optic Atrophy 1 

Choroiditis Double 1 

Opthalmia 1 

Mouth 99 

Cleft Palate 1 

Deficient Teeth 94 

Defective Speech 2 

Chr. Dislocation of Jaw 2 

Liver — Hypertrophy of 1 

Hernia 70 

Inguinal 63 

Ventral 6 

Abdominal 1 

Genito Urinary 49 

Lues Active 14 

Hydrocele 1 

Varicocele 10 

Epidydimitis 2 

Double Scrotum 1 

Gonorrhea Active 20 

Orchitis 1 

Ears 36 

Deaf 24 

Suppurative Otitis Media 10 

Ch. Catarrhal Otitis Media 2 

Nose 6 

Deviated Septum 3 

Occlusion of Right Nostril 2 

Purulent Ethmoiditis 1 



76 The World War — ■ Selective Service 

Throat 8 

Chr. Pharyngitis 2 

Chr. Laryngitis 2 

Goitre 2 

Chr. Tonsilitis 2 

Heart 49 

Various Lesions 49 

Lungs 40 

T. B 31 

Chr. Pleurisy 2 

Chr. Bronchitis (Purulent) ■ 3 

Influenza 4 

Stomach 2 

Visceral Optosis 1 

Epigastric Lipoma 1 

Testicle 4 

In Canal 3 

In Abdomen 1 

Total 814 

Total Number of Men Examined 1946 

Accepted for Full Military Service 1037 

Accepted for Limited Military Service 523 

Remediable Cases 110 

Rejected for all Military Service 276 

Daniel V. O'Leary 

WAR DEPARTMENT 
Office of the Provost Marshal General. 
Washington, November 15, 1917. 

From: The Office of the Provost Marshal General. 

To: Mr. Theodore C. Hailes, Local Board No. 1, Albany. 

Subject: Local Board Statistics. 

1. The remarkable record made by your Board in complet- 
ing and dispatching the required data in as brief a time has 



State of New York — ■ Albany County 77 

received the hearty thanks of the Provost Marshal General. 
/You are requested to convey to Mr. John J. Murphy, and Miss 
Ellen Murphy, Miss Helen C. McCann, Charles H. Turner, 
Dr. D. V. O'Leary and Louise V. McCann his cordial thanks 
for their able assistance. 

By direction of General Crowder. 

(Signed) JOHN E. WIGMORE 
Major Advocate, 0. R. C. 

Assistant to the Provost Marshal General. 




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LOCAL BOARD NO. 2, ALBANY CITY 
Organized July 1, 1917 

Members of Board : 

Peter D. Kiernan, Chairman 

Dudley Olcott (Resigned before organization of Board) 
Prof. Thomas S. O'Brien, Secretary, appointed to fill va- 
cancy of Dudley Olcott, resigned 
Dr. James F. Barker 

Assistant Examining Physicians: 
Dr. Joseph D. Craig 
Dr. Archibald C. Worth, Jr. 
Dr. Thomas H. McGrail 
Dr. Jacob Drooz 

Chief Clerks: 

William Barriskill, July 1, 1917 to February 6, 1918 
Frank P. Hitchcock, February 6, 1918 to August 10, 1918 
Martin V. B. Quin, appointed August 15, 1918 

Stenographer : 

Alida G. McGaughan, appointed December 15, 1917 

Clerk: 

Harriet E. Gallon, appointed July 11th, 1918 

Limited Service Clerk: 

Martin Croissant, September 15th to November 1, 1918 

The following assisted this Board at various times without 
compensation : 

Miss Agnes Stowe 
Miss Ada Diener 
Miss Lillian McGaughan 
Miss Evelyn McHenry 
Miss T. A. Kelleher 
Mr. James Noonan 

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80 The World War — ■ Selective Service 

Mr. George B. Clapham 
Mr. Herbert A. Fisher 
Mr. William A. Mitchell 
Mr. Harry Mang. 

History of Local Board No. 2, Albany City. 

The members of Local Board No 2, Albany City, were 
appointed June 23, 1917 as follows: 

Dudley Olcott 
Peter D. Kiernan 
Dr. James F. Barker 

Dudley Olcott resigned before the organization of the Board 
and Prof. Thomas S. O'Brien was appointed July 1, 1917 to 
succeed him. The Board was then organized with the follow- 
ing officers : 

Chairman, Peter D. Kiernan 

Medical Examiner, Dr. James F. Barker 

Secretary, Prof. Thomas S. O'Brien 

Chief Clerk, William Barriskill. 

Alida G. McGaughan, appointed Clerk, December 15, 1917 

Frank P. Hitchcock, appointed Chief Clerk, February 6, 
1918 

Frank P. Hitchcock, resigned August 10, 1918 

Harriet E. Gallon, appointed Clerk, July 11, 1918 

Martin V. B. Quin, appointed as Chief Clerk, August 15, 
1918 

Martin Croissant, appointed Limited Service Clerk, Sep- 
tember 15th to November 1, 1918 

The following physicians were appointed to assist Dr. Bar- 
ker. These doctors gave their assistance without compensa- 
tion: 

Dr. Joseph D. Craig 

Dr. Archibald C. Worth, Jr. 

Dr. Thomas H. McGrail 

Dr. Jacob Drooz. 



State of New York — Albany County 81 

Petei D. Kiernan, Chairman, and Dr. James F. Barker 
have given their services without compensation. Mr. Kiernan 
donated office space, heat, light and telephone service and 
everything that was needed for the maintenance of the Board, 
without any expense to the Government. 

June 5, 1917 Registration 

Registration 2 ,561 

White 2,483 

Colored 78 

Total Class 2 129 

Total Class 3 200 

Total Class 4 710 

Total Class 5 625 

Cancellations (Death) 11 

Failed to report for physical examination 33 

Ordered to entrain 684 

Accepted at Camp 555 

Rejected at Camp 66 

Failed to report to Camp 1 

Reported Delinquents 83 

Not Classified 27 

Forwarded to District Board 230 

Returned by District Board 230 

Physically examined 703 

Special or Limited Service 104 

Remediable Defectives 24 

General Military Service 575 

Noncombatants 1 

Emergency Fleet 15 

Physically examined (Colored) 27 

Special or Limited Service (Colored) 5 

General Military Service (Colored) 1 

June 5, 1918 and August 24, 1918 Registration 

Registration 209 

White 202 

Colored 7 



82 The JJ orld War — Selective Service 

Total Class 2 22 

Total Class 3 46 

Total Class 4 21 

Total Class 5 44 

Cancellations (Death) 2 

Ordered to entrain 68 

Accepted at Camp 61 

Rejected at Camp 6 

Forwarded to District Board 13 

Returned by District Board 13 

Not physically examined 2 

Physically examined 110 

Special or Limited Service 15 

Remediable Defectives 8 

General Military Service 86 

Emergency Fleet 1 

Physically examined (Colored) 7 

Special or Limited Service (Colored) 1 

Remediable Defectives (Colored) 6 

September 12, 1918 Registration 
19 to 36 years 37 to 45 years 18 years 

Class 1 529 1 ,656 Class 1 134 

Class 2 26 Class 2 2 

Class 3 97 Class 3 7 

Class 4 527 Class 4 

Class 5 95 Class 5 4 



Total 1,274 Total.... 1,656 Total 147 

Total number of September 12, 1918 registrants ... 3 , 137 




Local Board Albany City No. 3 

William Barnett, Chairman James F. Rooney, M. D. 



Lewis R. Parker 



LOCAL BOARD NO. 3, ALBANY CITY 

The members of Local Board No. 3, Albany City, were ap- 
pointed on June 23, 1917. William Barnet, Lewis R. Parker 
and James F. Rooney, M. D. 

The Board organized on July 1, 1917, and served with the 
above personnel until January 11, 1918, upon which date Mr. 
Lewis R. Parker resigned because of illness. The work of the 
Board was then carried on by the two remaining members 
until February 20, 1918, upon which date Mr. Robert E. 
Whalen was appointed member vice Mr. Lewis R. Parker, 
resigned. 

At the organization of the Board Mr. William Barnet was 
elected Chairman, Mr. Lewis R. Parker, Clerk, and James F. 
Rooney, M.D., Medical Examiner. 

Mr. W. Karl Mengerink was appointed Chief Clerk on the 
15th day of December, 1917. He resigned to enlist in the 
United States Navy August 15, 1918, upon which date Mr. 
James E. Ostram assumed the duties of Chief Clerk. 

Nellie Lindquist was appointed assistant clerk on December 
15, 1917. 

Pvt. Walter C. Rextrew was appointed Limited Service 
Clerk to the Board on September 15, 1918. 

Additional Medical Examiners serving with this Board are 
given in order of their appointment : 
Dr. William G. Lewi 
Dr. Frederic C. Conway 
Dr. Arthur J. Bedell 
Dr. Percival W. Harrig. 

At the time of its organization the Board decided as a body 
that they would not ask for or receive compensation for their 
services from the Government, so that at no time has any 
member of this Board or any additional examining physician 
asked for or accepted any recompense of whatever nature for 
their services. Moreover, the expense of clerk hire during the 
early part of the draft and until November 1, 1917, was met 
by the Board Members. 

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June, 1917, Registration 

Registration 2 ,215 

White 2,209 

Colored 6 

Total Class 1 681 

Total Class 2 67 

Total Class 3 102 

Total Class 4 724 

Total Class 5 555 

Cancellations (Death) 3 

General Service 2 

Remediable Defectives 36 

Limited Service 78 

Delinquents 58 

Ordered to Camp 483 

Emergency Fleet 9 

Not Examined 15 

Unclassified 2 

June and August, 1918, Registration 

Total Registration 143 

White 143 

Total Class 1 72 

Total Class 2 7 

Total Class 3 10 

Total Class 4 3 

Total Class 5 51 

Cancellations (Death) 1 

General Military Service 20 

Remediable Defectives 2 

Limited Service 8 

Delinquents 1 

Ordered to Camp 36 

Not examined 5 

September 12, 1918, Registration 

Registration 3 ,215 

White 3,195 

Colored 16 



State of New York — Albany County 85 

Oriental 4 

Total Class 1 503 

Total Class 2 44 

Total Class 3 88 

Total Class 4 666 

Total Class 5 143 

Cancellations (State Headquarters) 1 

Cancellations (Death) 1 

Failed to report for physical examination 17 

Ordered to entrain 

Accepted at Camp 

Rejected at Camp 

Failed to report to Camp 

Reported Delinquents 7 

Not Classified 1 .769 

Forwarded to District Board 217 

Returned by District Board, no action taken 217 

Physically examined 259 

Special or Limited Service 45 

Remediable Defectives 8 

General Military Service 145 

Noncombatants 

Emergency Fleet 

Inducted into service 61 

Physically examined (Colored) 1 

Special or Limited Service (Colored) 1 

General Military Service (Colored) 

Physically examined (Oriental) 1 

Recent Marriages in Class of 1917 32 Reclassified 

in 1-A 29 

Recent Marriages in Class of 1918 14 Reclassified 

in 1-A 13 

Naturalized Declarants in Class of 1917 and 1918 . 29 

Alienage Waivers in Class of 1917 and 1918 37 



86 The World War — Selective Service 

June 5 and August 24, 1918, Registration 

Registration 143 

White 143 

Colored 

Total Class 1 72 

Total Class 2 8 

Total Class 3 10 

Total Class 4 3 

Total Class 5 50 

Cancellations (Death) 

Failed to report for physical examination 1 

Ordered to entrain 37 

Accepted at Camp 35 

Rejected at Camp 2 

Failed to report at Camp 

Reported Delinquents 1 

Not Classified 

Forwarded to District Board 17 

Returned by District Board 17 

Physically examined 96 

Special or Limited Service 8 

Remediable Defectives 2 

General Military Service 23 

Noncombatants 

Emergency Fleet 

June 5, 1917, Registration 

Registration 2 ,215 

White 2,209 

Colored 6 

Total Class 1 757 

Total Class 2 67 

Total Class 3 102 

Total Class 4 724 

Total Class 5 555 

Cancellations (State Headquarters) 6 

Cancellations (Death) 4 

Failed to report for physical examination 50 



State of New York — ■ Albany County 87 

Ordered to entrain 577 

Accepted at Camp 464 

Rejected at Camp 32 

Failed to report to Camp 1 

Reported Delinquents 50 

Not classified 

Forwarded to District Board 318 

Returned by District Board 318 

Physically examined 782 

Special or Limited Service 38 

Remediable Defectives 39 

General Military Service 459 

Noncombatants 2 

Emergency Fleet 13 

Physically examined (Colored) 7 

Special or Limited Service (Colored) 1 

General Military Service (Colored) 4 




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LOCAL BOARD NO. 4, ALBANY CITY 
Organized July 9th, 1917 

Board Members: 

Frank B. Graves, Chairman, appointed July 9th, 1917 
Mr. John A. Delehanty, Chairman, appointed August 2d, 

1918, to fill vacancy of Mr. Frank B. Graves 
Mr. Franklin M. Danaher, Secretary, appointed July 9th, 

1917 
Mr. Peter G. Ten Eyck, Secretary, appointed September 

7th, 1918, to fill vacancy of Mr. Danaher 
Dr. William H. George, Examining Physician, appointed 

July 9th, 1917. 

Assistant Medical Examiner: 
Dr. Harry Rulison. 

Chief Clerk: 

Mr. Edwin B. Parkhurst, from July 9th, 1917, to March 
1st, 1918 

Mr. Frank H. Decent, from March 1st, 1918, to comple- 
tion of work. 

Stenographers: 

Miss Mabel Phillips, from July 24th, 1917, to March 30th 

1918 
Miss Marguerite C. Coffey, from October 1st, 1918, to 
completion of work. 

Clerks: 

Mr. Raymond A. Griffin, from July 9th, 1917, to August 

24th, 1917 
Mr. Frank G. Coburn, from July 18th, 1917, to September 

15th, 1917 
Miss Marian B. Mabee, from July 10th, 1917, to July 

19th, 1917 

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Miss Ellen Murphy, from December 22d, 1917, to March 

1st, 1918; reappointed April 1st, 1918 
Miss Helen B. Page, from January 15th, 1918, to March 

1st, 1918. 

June 5, 1918 and August 24, 1918, Registration 

Registration 180 

White 180 

Class 1 Total 94 

Class 2 Total 11 

Class 3 Total 15 

Class 4 Total 12 

Class 5 Total 48 

Classification List 

Cancellations (Death) 

Cancellations (State Headquarters) 

Ordered to entrain 57 

Failed to report to Camp 

Accepted at Camp 42 

Rejected at Camp 6 

Reported Delinquents 1 

Not Classified 1 

Forwarded to District Board 27 

Returned by District Board 27 

Forwarded to President 

Returned by President 

Not physically examined 2 

Physically examined 90 

Special or Limited Service 16 

Remediable Defectives 7 

General Military Service 67 

Noncombatants 

Emergency Fleet 

June 5, 1917, Registration 

Registration 2 .681 

White 2,671 



State of New York — Albany County 91 

Colored 9 

Oriental 1 

Total Class 1 733 

Total Class 2 127 

Total Class 3 187 

Total Class 4 1,125 

Total Class 5 494 

Cancellations (Death) 1 

Cancellations (State Headquarters) 

Failed to report for physical examination 17 

Ordered to entrain 92 

Rejected at Camp 12 

Failed to report to Camp 1 

Classification List 

Cancellations (Death) 12 

Cancellations (State Headquarters) 2 

Ordered to entrain 511 

Failed to report to Camp 1 

Accepted at Camp 476 

Rejected at Camp 34 

Reported Delinquents 31 

Not Classified 3 

Forwarded to District Board 644 

Returned by District Board 644 

Forwarded to President 

Returned by President 

Not physically examined 6 

Physically examined 680 

Special or Limited Service 175 

Remediable Defectives 41 

General Military Service 464 

Noncombatants 

Emergency Fleet 15 

Physically examined (Colored) 3 

Special or Limited Service (Colored) 1 

General Military Service (Colored) 2 



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September, 1918, Registration 

19 to 36 years 37 to 45 years 18 years 

Class 1 519 Class 1. 201 

Class 2 122 

Class 3 70 Class 3 5 

Class 4 872 Class 4 3 

Class 5 66 Cancelled.. . 2,190 Class 5 3 

Cases pending. 2 



Total 1,651 Total. . . . 2,190 Total 212 

Total number September, 1918, registrants 4,053 



TERMS OF THE ARMISTICE AGREEMENTS CON- 
CLUDED BETWEEN THE ALLIED AND ASSO- 
CIATED GOVERNMENTS AND THE GOVERN- 
MENTS OF GERMANY, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY AND 
BULGARIA. 



Terms of Armistice with Germany, November 11, 1918. 

Between Marshal Foch, commander in chief of the allied 
armies, acting in the name of the allied and associated powers, 
with Admiral Wemyss, first sea lord, on the one hand, and 
Herr Erzberger, secretary of state, president of the German 
delegation, Count von Oberndorff, envoy extraordinary and 
minister plenipotentiary, Maj. Gen. von Winterfeldt, Capt. 
Vanselow (German navy), duly empowered and acting with 
the concurrence of the German chancellor, on the other hand. 

An armistice has been concluded on the following conditions : 

Conditions of the Armistice Concluded with Germany. 
(a.) clauses relating to the western front. 

I. Cessation of hostilities by land and in the air six hours 
after the signing of the armistice. 

II. Immediate evacuation of the invaded countries — Bel- 
gium, France, Luxemburg, as well as Alsace-Lorraine — so 
ordered as to be completed within 15 days from the signature of 
the armistice. 

German troops which have not left the above-mentioned 
territories within the period fixed shall be made prisoners of 
war. 

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Occupation by the allied and United States forces jointly 
shall keep pace with the evacuation in these areas. 

All movements of evacuation and occupation shall be regu- 
lated in accordance with a note (Annexe 1) determined at th e 
time of the signing of the armistice. 

III. Repatriation, beginning at once, to be completed within 
15 days, of all inhabitants of the countries above enumerated 
(including hostages, persons under trial, or condemned). 

IV. Surrender in good condition by the German armies of 
the following equipment: 5,000 guns (2,500 heavy, 2,500 field), 
25,000 machine guns, 3,000 trench mortars, 1,700 aeroplanes 
(fighters, bombers — firstly all D. 7's and night-bombing 
machines) . 

The above to be delivered in situ to the allied and United 
States troops in accordance with the detailed conditions laid 
down in the note (Annexe 1) determined at the time of the 
signing of the armistice. 

V. Evacuation by the German armies of the districts on the 
left bank of the Rhine. These districts on the left bank of the 
Rhine shall be administered by the local authorities under the 
control of the allied and United States armies of occupation. 

The occupation of these territories by allied and United 
States troops shall be assured by garrisons holding the principal 
crossings of the Rhine (Mainz, Coblenz, Cologne), together 
with bridgeheads at these points of a 30-kilometer (about 19 
miles) radius on the right bank, and by garrisons similarly 
holding the strategic points of the area. 

A neutral zone shall be reserved on the right bank of the 
Rhine, between the river and a line drawn parallel to the 
bridgeheads and to the river and 10 kilometers (6 1-4 miles) 
distant from them, between the Dutch frontier and the Swiss 
frontier. 



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The evacuation by the enemy of the Rhine districts (right 
and left banks) shall be so ordered as to be completed within a 
further period of 16 days, in all 31 days after the signing of the 
armistice. 

All movements of evacuation and occupation shall be 
regulated according to the note (Annexe 1) determined at the 
time of the signing of the armistice. 

VI. In all territories evacuated by the enemy, evacuation of 
the inhabitants shall be forbidden; no damage or harm shall be 
done to the persons or property of the inhabitants. 

No person shall be prosecuted for having taken part in any 
military measures previous to the signing of the armistice. 

No destruction of any kind to be committed. 

Military establishments of all kinds shall be delivered intact, 
as well as military stores, food, munitions, and equipment, 
which shall not have been removed during the periods fixed 
for evacuation. 

Stores of food of all kinds for the civil population, cattle, 
etc., shall be left in situ. 

No measure of a general character shall be taken, and no 
official order shall be given which would have as a consequence 
the depreciation of industrial establishments or a reduction 
of their personnel. 

VII. Roads and means of communications of every kind, 
railroads, waterways, roads, bridges, telegraphs, telephones, 
shall be in no manner impaired. 

All civil and military personnel at present employed on them 
shall remain. 

Five thousand locomotives and 150,000 wagons, in good 
working order, with all necessary spare parts and fittings, shall 
be delivered to the associated powers within the period fixed 
in Annexe No. 2 (not exceeding 31 days in all). 
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Five thousand motor lorries are also to be delivered in good 
condition within 36 days. 

The railways of Alsace-Lorraine shall be handed over within 
31 days, together with all personnel and material belonging to 
the organization of this system. 

Further, the necessary working material in the territories on 
the left bank of the Rhine shall be left in situ. 

All stores of coal and material for the upkeep of permanent 
way, signals, and repair shops, shall be left in situ and kept in 
an efficient state by Germany, so far as the working of the 
means of communication on the left bank of the Rhine is 
concerned. 

All lighters taken from the Allies shall be restored to them. 

The note attached as Annexe 2 defines the details of these 
measures. 

VIII. The German command shall be responsible for reveal- 
ing within 48 hours after the signing of the armistice all mines 
or delay-action fuzes disposed on territories evacuated by the 
German troops, and shall assist in their discovery and destruc- 
tion. 

The German command shall also reveal all destructive 
measures that may have been taken (such as poisoning or 
pollution of wells, springs, etc.). 

Breaches of these clauses will involve reprisals. 

IX. The right of requisition shall be exercised by the allied 
and United States armies in all occupied territories, save for 
settlement of accounts with authorized persons. 

The upkeep of the troops of occupation in the Rhine districts 
(excluding Alsace-Lorraine) shall be charged to the German 
Government. 

X. The immediate repatriation, without reciprocity, accord- 
ing to detailed conditions which shall be fixed, of all allied and 



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United States prisoners of war, including those under trial and 
condemned. The allied powers and the United States of 
America shall be able to dispose of these prisoners as they think 
fit. This condition annuls all other conventions regarding 
prisoners of war, including that of July, 1918, now being ratified. 
However, the return of German prisoners of war interned in 
Holland and Switzerland shall continue as heretofore. The 
return of German prisoners of war shall be settled at the con- 
clusion of the peace preliminaries. 

XI. Sick and wounded who can not be removed from terri- 
tory evacuated by the German forces shall be cared for by 
German personnel, who shall be left on the spot with the 
material required. 

(B) CLAUSES RELATING TO THE EASTERN FRONTIERS OF GERMANY. 

XII. All German troops at present in any territory which 
before the war formed part of Austria-Hungary, Roumania, or 
Turkey, shall withdraw within the frontiers of Germany as 
they existed on August 1, 1914, and all German troops at pres- 
ent in territories which before the war formed part of Russia 
must likewise return to within the frontiers of Germany as 
above defined, as soon as the Allies shall think the moment 
suitable, having regard to the internal situation of these 
territories. 

XIII. Evacuation of German troops to begin at once, and 
all German instructors, prisoners and agents, civilians as well as 
military, now on the territory of Russia (frontiers as defined 
on Aug. 1, 1914), to be recalled. 

XIV. German troops to cease at once all requisitions and 
seizures and any other coercive measures with a view to 
obtaining supplies intended for Germany in Roumania and 
Russia (frontiers as defined on Aug. 1, 1914). 



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XV. Annulment of the treaties of Bucharest and Brest- 
Litovsk and of the supplementary treaties. 

XVI. The Allies shall have free access to the territories 
evacuated by the Germans on their eastern frontier, either 
through Danzig or by the Vistula, in order to convey supplies 
to the populations of these territories or for the purpose of 
maintaining order. 

(C) CLAUSE RELATING TO EAST AFRICA 

XVII. Evacuation of all German forces operating in East 
Africa within a period specified by the Allies. 

(D) GENERAL CLAUSES 

XVIII. Repatriation without reciprocity, within a maximum 
period of one month, in accordance with detailed conditions 
hereafter to be fixed, of all interned civilians, including hostages 
and persons under trial and condemned, who may be subjects 
of allied or associated States other than those mentioned in 
Clause III. 

FINANCIAL CLAUSES 

XIX. With the reservation that any subsequent concessions 
and claims by the Allies and United States remain unaffected, 
the following financial conditions are imposed : 

Reparation for damage done. 

While the armistice lasts no public securities shall be removed 
by the enemy which can serve as a pledge to the Allies to cover 
reparation for war losses. 

Immediate restitution of the cash deposit in the National 
Bank of Belgium and, in general, immediate return of all docu- 
ments, specie, stocks, shares, paper money, together with plant 
for the issue thereof, affecting public or private interests in 
the invaded countries. 



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Restitution of the Russian and Roumanian gold yielded to 
Germany or taken by that power. 

This gold is to be delivered in trust to the Allies until peace is 
concluded. 

(e) naval conditions 

XX. Immediate cessation of all hostilities at sea and definite 
information to be given as to the position and movements of 
all German ships. 

Notification to be given to neutrals that freedom of navi- 
gation in all territorial waters is given to the navies and mer- 
cantile marines of the allied and associated powers, all questions 
of neutrality being waived. 

XXI. All naval and mercantile marine prisoners of war of 
the allied and associated powers in German hands to be 
returned without reciprocity. 

XXII. To surrender at the ports specified by the Allies and 
the United States all submarines at present in existence (includ- 
ing all submarine cruisers and mine layers), with armament 
and equipment complete. Those that can not put to sea shall 
be deprived of armament and equipment and shall remain 
under the supervision of the Allies and the United States. 
Submarines ready to put to sea shall be prepared to leave 
German ports immediately on receipt of a wireless order to 
sail to the port of surrender, the remainder to follow as early 
as possible. The conditions of this article shall be completed 
within 14 days of the signing of the armistice. 

XXIII. The following German surface warships, which shall 
be designated by the Allies and the United States of America, 
shall forthwith be disarmed and thereafter interned in neutral 
ports, or, failing them, allied ports, to be designated by the 
Allies and the United States of America, and placed under 



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the surveillance of the Allies and the United States of 
America, only care and maintenance parties being left on 
board, namely: 

6 battle cruisers. 

10 battleships. 

8 light cruisers (including 2 mine layers). 

50 destroyers of the most modern type. 

All other surface warships (including river craft) are to be 
concentrated in German naval bases, to be designated by the 
Allies and the United States of America, completely disarmed 
and placed under the supervision of the Allies and the United 
States of America. All vessels of the auxiliary fleet are to be 
disarmed. All vessels specified for internment shall be ready 
to leave German ports seven days after the signing of the armis- 
tice. Directions for the voyage shall be given by wireless. 

XXIV. The Allies and the United States of America shall 
have the right to sweep up all mine fields and destroy all 
obstructions laid by Germany outside German territorial 
waters, and the positions of these are to be indicated. 

XXV. Freedom of access to and from the Baltic to be given 
to the navies and mercantile marines of the allied and associated 
powers. This to be secured by the occupation of all German 
forts, fortifications, batteries, and defense works of all kinds in 
all the routes from the Cattegat into the Baltic and by the 
sweeping up and destruction of all mines and obstructions 
within and without German territorial waters without any 
questions of neutrality being raised by Germany, and the 
positions of all such mines and obstructions to be indicated, 
and the plans relating thereto are to be supplied. 

XXVI. The existing blockade conditions set up by the allied 
and associated powers are to remain unchanged, and all German 
merchant ships found at sea are to remain liable to capture. 
The Allies and United States contemplate the provisioning of 
Germany during the armistice as shall be found necessary. 



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XXVII. All aerial forces are to be concentrated and immo- 
bilized in German bases to be specified by the Allies and the 
United States of America. 

XXVIII. In evacuating the Belgian coasts and ports Ger- 
many shall abandon in situ and intact the port material and 
material for inland waterways, also all merchant ships, tugs 
and lighters, all naval aircraft and air materials and stores, all 
arms and armaments and all stores and apparatus of all kinds. 

XXIX. All Black Sea ports are to be evacuated by Germany; 
all Russian warships of all descriptions seized by Germany in 
the Black Sea are to be handed over to the Allies and the 
United States of America; all neutral merchant ships seized 
in the Black Sea are to be released; all warlike and other 
materials of all kinds seized in those ports are to be returned, 
and German materials as specified in Clause XXVIII are to 
be abandoned. 

XXX. All merchant ships at present in German hands 
belonging to the allied and associated powers are to be restored 
to ports specified by the Allies and the United States of America 
without reciprocity. 

XXXI. No destruction of ships or of materials to be per. 
mitted before evacuation, surrender, or restoration. 

XXXII. The German Government shall formally notify all 
the neutral Governments, and particularly the Governments of 
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Holland, that all restrictions 
placed on the trading of their vessels with the allied and 
associated countries, whether by the German Government or 
by private German interests, and whether in return for specific 
concessions, such as the export of shipbuilding materials, or 
not, are immediately canceled. 



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XXXIII. No transfers of German merchant shipping of any 
description to any neutral flag are to take place after signature 
of the armistice. 

(f) duration of armistice 

XXXIV. The duration of the armistice is to be 36 days, 
with option to extend. During this period, on failure of execu- 
tion of any of the above clauses, the armistice may be repu- 
diated by one of the contracting parties on 48 hours' previous 
notice. It is understood that failure to execute Articles III 
and XVIII completely in the periods specified is not to give 
reason for a repudiation of the armistice, save where such 
failure is due to malice aforethought. 

To insure the execution of the present convention under the 
most favorable conditions, the principle of a permanent inter- 
national armistice commission is recognized. This commission 
shall act under the supreme authority of the high command, 
military and naval, of the allied armies. 

The present armistice was signed on the 11th day of Novem- 
ber, 1918, at 5 o'clock a. m. (French time). 

(Signed) F. Foch. Erzberger. 

R. E. Wemyss. Oberndorff. 

WlNTERFELDT. 

Vanselow. 



November 11, 1918. 

The representatives of the Allies declare that, in view of 
fresh events, it appears necessary to them that the following 
condition shall be added to the clauses of the armistice : 

In case the German ships are not handed over within the periods specified, the 
Governments of the Allies and of the United States shall have the right to occupy 
Heliogoland to insure their delivery. 

(Signed) F. Foch. 

R. E. Wemyss, 
Admiral, 



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The German delegates declare that they will forward this 
declaration to the German chancellor, with the recommenda- 
tion that it be accepted, accompanying it with the reasons by 
which the Allies have been actuated in making this demand. 

(Signed) Erzberger. 
Oberndorff. 

WlNTERFELDT. 

Vanselow. 
Annex No. 1. 

I. The evacuation of the invaded territories, Belgium, 
France, and Luxemburg, and also of Alsace-Lorraine, shall be 
carried out in three successive stages according to the following 
conditions : 

First stage. — Evacuation of the territories situated between 
the existing front and line No. 1 on the inclosed map, to be 
completed within 5 days after the signature of the armistice. 

Second stage. — Evacuation of territories situated between 
line No. 1 and line No. 2, to be carried out within 4 further 
days (9 days in all after the signing of the armistice) . 

Third stage. — Evacuation of the territories situated between 
line No. 2 and line No. 3, to be completed within 6 further days 
(15 days in all after the signing of the armistice). 

Allied and United States troops shall enter these various 
territories on the expiration of the period allowed to the 
German troops for the evacuation of each. 

In consequence, the allied troops will cross the present Ger- 
man front as from the 6th day following the signing of the 
armistice, line No. 1 as from the 10th day, and line No. 2 as 
from the 16th day. 

II. Evacuation of the Rhine district. — This evacuation shall 
also be carried out in several successive stages : 

(1) Evacuation of territories situated between lines 2 and 3 
and line 4, to be completed within 4 further days (19 days in 
all after the signing of the armistice). 



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(2) Evacuation of territories situated between lines 4 and 5 
to be completed within 4 further days (23 days in all after the 
signing of the armistice) . 

(3) Evacuation of territories situated between lines 5 and 6 
(line of the Rhine) to be completed within 4 further days (27 
days in all after the signing of the armistice) . 

(4) Evacuation of the bridgeheads and of the neutral zone 
on the right bank of the Rhine to be completed within 4 further 
days (31 days in all after the signing of the armistice). 

The allied and United States army of occupation shall ente r 
these various territories after the expiration of the period 
allowed to the German troops for the evacuation of each; 
consequently the army will cross line No. 3, 20 days after the 
signing of the armistice. It will cross line No. 4 as from the 
twenty- fourth day after the signing of the armistice; line No. 5 
as from the twenty-eighth day; line No. 6 (Rhine) the thirty- 
second day, in order to occupy the bridgeheads. 

III. Surrender by the German armies of war material specified 
by the armistice. — This war material shall be surrendered 
according to the following conditions : The first half before the 
tenth day, the second half before the twentieth day. This 
material shall be handed over to each of the allied and United 
States armies by each larger tactical group of the German 
armies in the proportions which may be fixed by the permanent 
International Armistice Commission. 

annex no. 2. 
Conditions regarding communications, railways, waterways, 
roads, river and sea ports, and telegraphic and telephonic 
communications : 

I. All communications as far as the Rhine, inclusive, or 
comprised, on the right bank of this river, within the bridge- 
heads occupied by the allied armies shall be placed under the 



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supreme and absolute authority of the commander in chief of 
the allied armies, who shall have the right to take any measure 
he may think necessary to assure their occupation and use. 
All documents relative to communications shall be held ready 
for transmission to him. 

II. All the material and all the civil and military personnel 
at present employed in the maintenance and working of all 
lines of communication are to be maintained in their entirety 
upon these lines in all territories evacuated by the German 
troops. 

All supplementary material necessary for the upkeep of 
these lines of communication in the districts on the left bank of 
the Rhine shall be supplied by the German Government 
throughout the duration of the armistice. 

III. Personnel. — The French and Belgian personnel belong- 
ing to the services of the lines of communication, whether in- 
terned or not, are to be returned to the French and Belgian 
armies during the 15 days following the signing of the armistice. 
The personnel belonging to the organization of the Alsace- 
Lorraine railway system is to be maintained or reinstated in 
such a way as to insure the working of the system. 

The commander in chief of the allied armies shall have the 
right to make all changes and substitutions that he may desire 
in the personnel of the lines of communication. 

IV. Material — (a) Rolling stock. — The rolling stock handed 
over to the allied armies in the zone comprised between the 
present front and line No. 3, not including Alsace-Lorraine, 
shall amount at least to 5,000 locomotives and 150,000 wagons. 
This surrender shall be carried out within the period fixed by 
clause 7 of the armistice, and under conditions the details of 
which shall be fixed by the permanent International Armistice 
Commission. 

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order, with all the ordinary spare parts and fittings. It may be 
employed together with the regular personnel, or with any 
other, upon any part of the railway system of the allied armies. 

The material necessary for the working of the Alsace-Lorraine 
railway system is to be maintained or replaced for the use of 
the French army. 

The material to be left in situ in the territories on the left 
bank of the Rhine, as well as that on the inner side of the 
bridgeheads, must permit of the normal working of the rail- 
ways in these districts. 

(b) Permanent way, signals, and workshops. — The material 
for signals, machine tools, and tool outfits, taken from the 
workshops and depots of the French and Belgian lines, are to 
be replaced under conditions the details of which are to be 
arranged by the permanent International Armistice Commis- 
sion. 

The allied armies are to be supplied with railroad material, 
rails, incidental fittings, plant, bridge-building material, and 
timber necessary for the repair of the lines destroyed beyond 
the present front. 

(c) Fuel and maintenance material. — The German Govern- 
ment shall be responsible throughout the duration of the 
armistice for the release of fuel and maintenance material to 
the depots normally allotted to the railways in the territories on 
the left bank of the Rhine. 

V. Telegraphic and telephonic communications. — All tele- 
graphs, telephones, and fixed W/T stations are to be handed 
over to the allied armies, with all the civil and military personnel 
and all their material, including all stores on the left bank of 
the Rhine. 

Supplementary stores necessary for the upkeep of the system 
are to be supplied throughout the duration of the armistice by 
the German Government according to requirements. 



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The commander in chief of the allied armies shall place this 
system under military supervision and shall insure its control, 
and shall make all changes and substitutions in personnel which 
he may think necessary. 

He will send back to the German Army all the military 
personnel who are not in his judgment necessary for the 
working and upkeep of the railway. 

All plans of the German telegraphic and telephonic systems 
shall be handed over to the commander in chief of the allied 
armies. 



CONVENTION PROLONGING THE ARMISTICE WITH GERMANY, 
DECEMBER 13, 1918. 

CONVENTION. 

The undersigned, in virtue of the powers with which they were 
endowed for the signing of the armistice of the 11th November, 
1918, have concluded the following additional agreement : 

1. The duration of the armistice signed on the 11th Novem- 
ber, 1918, has been prolonged for a month, i. e., till 5 a. m. on 
the 17th January, 1919. 

The one month's extension will be further extended until 
the conclusion of peace preliminaries, provided this arrange- 
ment meets with the approbation of the allied Governments. 

2. The clauses of the convention (11th November) which 
have been incompletely fulfilled will be carried out during the 
period of extension, according to the conditions laid down by 
the Permanent International Armistice Commission following 
the orders given by the allied generalissimo. 

3. The following clause is added to the convention of the 
11th November, 1918: [This condition was first announced in 
a note of the Allies December 12, 1918, in which infractions of 
12 articles of the armistice by Germany were listed. These 



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included failure to deliver war material, aircraft, railroad roll- 
ing stock, and naval vessels in the time and quantity provided. 
In connection with the last category the statement read: 
" Five submarines in Spain, one in Norway, and one in Nether- 
lands ought to be delivered," and " The refusal of the German 
Government to deliver the vessels condemned by the prize 
court is considered as contrary to the terms of the armistice." 
Other infractions were stated to be ill-treatment of inhabitants 
of evacuated territory and neglect of liberated prisoners of 
war; failure to indicate live mines in evacuated regions; 
failure to open navigation to the Baltic and removal of securi- 
ties and gold reserves pledged as a financial guaranty to the 
Allies. Germany replied on the same day, asserting her good 
faith and that such infractions as had occurred were due to 
physical impossibilities and the upset conditions of the country. 
The Allies, however, reasserted the new condition, taking 
account particularly of " the ill-treatment and cruelty inflicted 
upon allied prisoners as well as the diminution of financial 
guaranties given by Germany to the Allies " (quoted in Hol- 
land News 2:2520 et seq. from Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, 
December 17, 1918).] 

From now onwards the generalissimo reserves to himself the right of occupy- 
ing (when he deems it advisable), as an additional guarantee, the neutral zone on 
the right bank of the Rhine, north of the bridgehead of Cologne, and as far as 
the Dutch frontier. 

Six days' notice will be given by the generalissimo before the occupation 
comes into effect. 

Treves, December 13, 1918. 

(Signed) F. Foch, Erzberger. 

Wemyss, A. Oberndorff. 

Admiral. Winterfeldt. 
Vanselow. 



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CONVENTION PROLONGING THE ARMISTICE WITH GERMANY, 
JANUARY 16, 1919. 

CONVENTION. 

The undersigned plenipotentiaries (Admiral Browning taking 
the place of Admiral Wemyss), vested with the powers in 
virtue of which the armistice agreement of 11th November, 
1918, was signed, have concluded the following supplementary 
agreement : 

1. The armistice of the 11th November, 1918, which was 
prolonged until the 17th January, 1919, by the agreement of 
the 13th December, 1918, shall be again prolonged for one 
month, that is to say, until the 17th February, 1919, at 5 a. m. 

This prolongation of one month shall be extended until the 
conclusion of the peace preliminaries, subject to the approval 
of the allied Governments. 

2. The execution of those clauses of the agreement of the 
11th November which have not been entirely carried out shall 
be proceeded with and completed during the prolongation of 
the armistice, in accordance with the detailed conditions fixed 
by the Permanent International Armistice Commission on the 
instructions of the allied high command. 

3. In substitution of the supplementary railway material 
specified by Tables 1 and 2 of the Spa protocol of 17th Decem- 
ber, i. e., 500 locomotives and 19,000 wagons, the German 
Government shall supply the following agricultural machinery 
and instruments: 

400 two-engined steam-plow outfits, complete, with suitable plows 
6,500 drills. 

6 , 500 manure distributors. 
6,500 plows. 
6 , 500 Brabant plows. 
12,500 harrows. 
6 , 500 scarifiers. 
2 , 500 steel rollers. 
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2 , 500 mowing machines. 

2 , 500 hay-making machines. 

3 , 000 reapers and binders. 

or equivalent implements, according to the scale of inter- 
changeability of various kinds of implements considered 
permissible by the Permanent International Armistice Com- 
mission. All this material, which shall be either new or in 
very good condition, shall be delivered together with all 
accessories belonging to each implement and with the spare 
parts required for 18 months' use. 

The German Armistice Commission shall, between the present 
date and the 23d January, supply the Allied Armistice Com- 
mission with a list of the material that can be delivered by the 
1st March, which must, in principle, constitute not less than 
one-third of the total quantity. The International Armistice 
Commission shall, between now and the 23d January, fix the 
latest dates of delivery, which shall, in principle, not extend 
beyond the 1st June. 

4. The officers in Germany delegated by the allied and 
associated powers to organize the evacuation of the prisoners 
of war belonging to the armies of the entente, together with 
representatives of the relief associations of the United States, 
France, Great Britain, and Italy shall form a commission 
charged with the care of Russian prisoners of war in Germany. 

This commission, the headquarters of which shall be in 
Berlin, shall be empowered to deal with the German Govern- 
ment direct, upon instructions from the allied Governments, 
regarding all questions relating to Russian prisoners of war. 

The German Government shall accord the commission all 
traveling facilities necessary for the purpose of investigating 
the housing conditions and food supply of such prisoners. 

The allied Governments reserve the right to arrange for the 
repatriation of Russian prisoners of war to any region which 
they may consider most suitable. 



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5. Naval clauses. — Article XXII, of the armistice agreement 
of the 11th November, 1918, shall be supplemented as follows: 

In order to insure the execution of such clause, the German authorities shall be 
bound to carry out the following conditions: 

All submarines capable of putting to sea, or of being towed, shall be handed 
over immediately and shall make for allied ports. Such vessels shall include 
submarine cruisers, mine layers, relief ships, and submarine docks. All sub- 
marines which can not be surrendered shall be completely destroyed or disman- 
tled under the supervision of the allied commissioners. 

Submarine construction shall cease immediately, and all submarines in course 
of construction shall be destroyed or dismantled under the supervision of the 
allied commissioners. 

Article XXIII of the armistice agreement of the 11th Novem- 
ber, 1918, shall be supplemented as follows: 

In order to insure the execution of such clause, the German commission shall 
furnish the interallied naval armistice commission with a complete list of all 
surface vessels constructed or in course of construction (launched or on the 
stocks), specifying probable dates of completion. 

Article XXX of the armistice agreement of 11th November, 
1918, shall be supplemented as follows: 

In order to insure the execution of such clause, the allied high command informs 
the German high command that all possible measures must be taken immediately 
for delivery, in allied ports, of all allied merchantmen still detained in German 
ports. 

6. Restitution of material carried off from Belgian and French 
territories. — As restitution of material carried off from French 
and Belgian territory is indispensable for setting factories once 
more into working order, the following measures shall be 
carried out, viz : 

(a) All machinery, machinery parts, industrial or agricul- 
tural plant, accessories of all kinds and, generally, all industrial 
or agricultural articles carried off by German military or 
civilian authorities or individuals, under any pretext whatever ? 
from territories formerly occupied by the German armies on 
the western front, shall be placed at the disposal of the Allies 
for the purpose of being returned to their places of origin, should 
the French and Belgian Governments so desire. 
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These articles shall be returned without further alteration 
and undamaged. 

(b) In view of such restitution, the German Government 
shall immediately furnish the armistice commission with all 
official or private accounts, agreements for sale or hire, or 
correspondence relating to such articles, together with all 
necessary declarations or information regarding their existence, 
origin, adaptation, present condition and locality. 

(c) The delegates of the French or Belgian Government shall 
cause inventories or examinations of such articles to be made on 
the spot in Germany, should they think fit. 

(d) The return of such articles shall be effected in accord, 
ance with special instructions to be given as required by the 
French or Belgian authorities. 

(e) With a view to immediate restitution, declarations shall 
more particularly be made of all stocks of driving belts, electric 
motors and parts thereof, or plant removed from France or 
Belgium and existing in depot parks, railways, ships and 
factories. 

(/) The furnishing of the particulars referred to in articles 3 
and 6 hereof shall commence within eight clear days from the 
20th January, 1919, and shall be completed in principle before 
the 1st April, 1919. 

7. As a further guarantee, the supreme allied command 
reserves to itself the right to occupy, whenever it shall consider 
this desirable, the sector of the fortress of Strassburg formed 
by the fortifications on the right bank of the Rhine, with a strip 
of territory extending from 5 to 10 kilometers in front of such 
fortifications, within the boundaries defined on the map 
appended hereto. 

The supreme allied command shall give six days' notice prior 
to such occupation, which shall not be preceded by any des- 
truction of material or of buildings. 



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The limits of the neutral zone will, therefore, be advanced 
by 10 kilometers. 

8. In order to secure the provisioning of Germany and of the 
rest of Europe, the German Government shall take all neces- 
sary steps to place the German fleet, for the duration of the 
armistice, under the control and the flags of the allied powers 
and the United States, who shall be assisted by a German 
delegate. 

This arrangement shall in no wise affect the final disposal 
of such vessels. The Allies and the United States shall, if 
they consider this necessary, replace the crews either entirely 
or in part, and the officers and crews so replaced shall be 
repatriated to Germany. 

Suitable compensation, to be fixed by the allied Governments, 
shall be made for the use of such vessels. 

All questions of details, as also any exceptions to be made in 
the case of certain types of vessel, shall be settled by a special 
agreement to be concluded immediately. 

Treves, January 16, 1919. 

(Signed) Foch. Erzberger. 

Browning. Oberndorff. 

VON WlNTERFELDT. 

Vanselow. 



CONVENTION PROLONGING THE ARMISTICE WITH GERMANY, 
FEBRUARY 16, 1919. 

CONVENTION. 

The undersigned plenipotentiaries, possessed of the powers in 
virtue of which the armistice agreement of November 11, 1918, 
was signed, have concluded the following additional agreement : 

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Gen. von Winterfeldt by Gen. von Hammerstein, and the 
minister plenipotentiary, Count von Oberndorff, by the minister 
plenipotentiary, von Haniel. 

I. The Germans are to cease all hostilities against the Poles 
at once, whether in the district of Posen or any other district. 
With this end in view, they are forbidden to allow their troops 
to cross the following line : The old frontier between East and 
West Prussia and Russia as far as Louisenfelde, from thence 
the line west of Louisenfelde, west of Gr. Neudorff, south of 
Brzoza, north of Schubin, north of Exin, south of Samotschin, 
south of Chodziesen, north of Czarnikau, west of Miala, west 
of Birnbaum, west of Bentschen, west of Wollstein, north of 
Lissa, north of Rawitsch, south of Krotoschin, west of Adelnau, 
west of Schildberg, north of Doruchow, to the Silesian frontier. 

II. The armistice of November 11, prolonged by the agree- 
ments of December 13, 1918, and January 16, 1919, until 
February 17, 1919, is further prolonged for a short period, the 
date of expiry not being given, the allied powers and those 
associated with them reserving to themselves the right to 
terminate the period at three days' notice. 

III. The carrying out of those clauses of the agreement of 
November 11, 1918, and of the additional agreements of 
December 13, 1918, and January 16, 1919, the terms of which 
have not yet been fully carried into effect, will be continued 
and completed during the prolongation of the armistice, 
according to detailed arrangements made by the permanent 
armistice commission, acting on instructions issued by the 
supreme allied command. 

Treves, February 16, 1919. 

(Signed) Foch. Erzberger. 

Browning. Freiherr v. Hammerstein. 
von Haniel. 
Vanselow. 



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TERMS OF ARMISTICE WITH AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, NOVEM- 
BER 3, 1918 

(A) MILITARY CLAUSES. 

1. Immediate cessation of hostilities by land and sea and air. 

2. Total demobilization of Austro-Hungarian Army and 
immediate withdrawal of Austro-Hungarian forces operating 
on front from North Sea to Switzerland. 

Within the Austro-Hungarian territory limited as in clause 3, 
below, there shall only be maintained as an organized military 
force a maximum of 20 divisions reduced to prewar effectives. 

Half the divisional corps and army artillery and equipment 
shall be collected at points to be indicated by Allies and United 
States of America for delivery to them, beginning with all such 
material as exists in territories to be evacuated by Austro - 
Hungarian forces. 

3. Evacuation of all territories invaded by Austria-Hungary 
since the beginning of the war. Withdrawal within such 
periods as shall be determined by the commander in chief of 
allied forces on each front, of Austro-Hungarian armies behind 
a line fixed as follows : From Piz Umbrail to north of Stelvio it 
will follow crest of Rhetian Alps to sources of the Adige and 
Eisach, passing thence by the Reschen and Brenner and the 
heights of Oetz and Ziller. 

The line thence turns south, crossing Mount Toblach as far 
as present frontier of Carnic Alps. It follows this line as far 
as Mount Tarvis, thence to watershed of Julian Alps by Col de 
Predil, Mount Mangart, the Tricorno (Terglou) and watershed 
Podberdo, Podlaniscan and Idria. From this point the line 
turns southeast toward the Schneeberg, excluding the whole 
basin of the Save River and its tributaries ; from Schneeberg it 
descends the coast in such a way as to include Castua, Mat- 
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It will follow the administrative limits of present Province of 
Dalmatia, including to the north Lisarica and Tribania and to 
the south, territory limited by a line from the shore of Cape 
Planka to the summits of watershed eastward so as to include in 
evacuated area all the valleys and watercourses flowing toward 
Sebenico, such as Cicola, Karka, Butisnica, and their tribu- 
taries. It will also include all the islands in the north and west 
of Dalmatia from Premuda, Selve, Uubo, Scherba, Maon, Pago, 
and Puntadura Islands, in the north, up to Meleda, in the south, 
embracing Sant' Andrea, Busi, Lissa, Lesina, Tercola, Curzola, 
Cazza and Lagosta as well as neighboring rocks and islets and 
Pelagosa, only excepting the islands of great and small Zirona, 
Bua, Solta, and Brazza. 

All territories thus evacuated will be occupied by allied and 
American troops. 

All military and railway equipment of all kinds (including 
coal) within these territories to be let in situ, and surrendered 
to the Allies and America according to special orders given by 
commander in chief of forces of associated powers on different 
fronts. 

No new destruction, pillage, or requisition by enemy troops 
in territories to be evacuated by them and occupied by associ- 
ated powers. 

4. Allied armies shall have the right of free movement over 
all road and rail and water ways in Austro-Hungarian territory 
which shall be necessary. 

Armies of associated powers shall occupy such strategic 
points in Austria-Hungary at such times as they may deem 
necessary to enable them to conduct military operations or to 
maintain order. 

They shall have the right of requisition on payment for troops 
of associated powers wherever they may be. 



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5. Complete evacuation of all German troops within 15 days 
not only from Italian and Balkan fronts but from all Austro- 
Hungarian territory. 

Internment of all German troops which have not left Austria- 
Hungary before that date. 

6. Administration of evacuated territories of Austria- 
Hungary will provisionally be intrusted to local authorities 
under control of the allied and associated armies of occupation. 

7. Immediate repatriation, without reciprocity, of all prison- 
ers of war and interned allied subjects and of civilian popula- 
tions evacuated from their homes on conditions to be laid down 
by commanders in chief of forces of allied powers on various 
fronts. 

8. Sick and wounded who can not be removed from eva- 
cuated territory will be cared for by Austro-Hungarian per- 
sonnel who will be left on the spot with medical material 
required. 

(b) naval conditions. 

1. Immediate cessation of all hostilities at sea and definite 
information to be given as to location and movements of all 
Austro-Hungarian ships. 

Notification to be made to neutrals that free navigation in all 
territorial waters is given to the naval and mercantile marines 
of the allied and associated powers, all questions of neutrality 
being waived. 

2. Surrender to the allies and United States of America of 15 
Austro-Hungarian submarines completed between years 1910 
and 1918 and of all German submarines which are in or may 
hereafter enter Austro-Hungarian territorial waters. All other 
Austro-Hungarian submarines to be paid off and completely 
disarmed and to remain under supervision of the Allies. 

3. Surrender to the Allies and United States of America, with 
their complete armament and equipment, of 3 battleships, 3 light 
cruisers, 9 destroyers, 12 torpedo boats, 1 mine layer, 6 Danube 



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monitors, to be designated by the Allies and United States of 
America. 

All other surface war ships (including river craft) are to be 
concentrated in Austro-Hungarian naval bases to be designated 
by the Allies and United States of America, and are to be paid 
off, completely disarmed, and placed under supervision of 
Allies and United States of America. 

4. Free navigation to all war ships and merchant ships of 
allied and associated powers to be given in Adriatic, in terri- 
torial waters, and up River Danube and its tributaries, and 
Austro-Hungarian territory. 

Allies and associated powers shall have right to sweep up 
all mine fields and obstructions, and positions of these are to 
be indicated. 

In order to insure free navigation on the Danube, Allies and 
United States of America shall be empowered to occupy or to 
dismantle all fortifications or defense works. 

5. Existing blockade conditions set up by allied and associ- 
ated powers are to remain unchanged, and all Austro-Hungarian 
merchant ships found at sea are to remain liable to capture with 
the exceptions which may be made by a commission nominated 
by Allies and United States. 

6. All naval aircraft are to be concentrated and immobilized 
in Austro-Hungarian bases to be designated by Allies and United 
States of America. 

7. Evacuation of all the Italian coast, and of all ports 
occupied by Austria-Hungary outside their national territory, 
and abandonment of all floating craft, naval materials, equip- 
ment, and materials for inland navigation of all kinds. 

8. Occupation by Allies and United States of America of land 
and sea fortifications and islands which form defenses, and of 
dockyards and arsenals at Pola. 

9. All merchant vessels held by Austria-Hungary belonging 
to Allies and associated powers to be returned. 



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10. No destruction of ships or of materials to be permitted 
before evacuation, surrender, or restoration. 

11. All naval and mercantile prisoners of war of allied and 
associated powers in Austro-Hungarian hands to be returned 
without reciprocity. 

The undersigned plenipotentiaries, duly authorized, signify 
their approval of above conditions: 
November 3, 1918. 

Representatives of Austro-Hunjarian Representatives of Italian supreme 

supreme command command 

Victor Weber, Edler von Ten. Gen. Pietro Badoglio. 

Webenau. Magg. Gen. Scipione Scipioni. 

Karl Schneller. Colonn. Tullio Marchetti. 

Y. von Liechtenstein. Colonn. Pietro Gazzera. 

J. V. Nyekhegyi Colonn. Pietro Maravigna. 

Zwierkowski. Colonn. Alberty Pariani. 

Victor Freiherr von Seil- Cap. Vase. Francesco Accinni. 

ler. 
Kamillo Ruggera. 



Supplement to protocol. 
Contains details and executive clauses of certain points of 
the armistice between the allied and associated powers and 
Austria-Hungary. 

(1) MILITARY CLAUSES. 

1. Hostilities on land, sea, and air, will cease on all Austro- 
Hungarian fronts 24 hours after the signing of the armistice, 
i. e., at 3 o'clock on November 4 (Central European time). 

From that hour the Italian and allied troops will not advance 
beyond the line then reached. 

The Austro-Hungarian troops and those of her allies must 
retire to a distance of at least 3 kilometers (as the crow flies) 
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countries. Inhabitants of the 3-kilometer zone included 
between the two lines (above mentioned) will be able to obtain 
necessary supplies from their own army or those of the Allies. 

All Austro-Hungarian troops who may be at the rear of the 
fighting lines reached by the Italian troops, on the cessation of 
hostilities must be regarded as prisoners of war. 

2. Regarding the clauses included in articles 2 and 3 con- 
cerning artillery equipment and war material to be either 
collected in places indicated or left in territories which are to be 
evacuated, the Italian plenipotentiaries representing all of 
the allied and associated powers, give to the said clauses the 
following interpretation, which will be carried into execution: 

(a) Any material or part thereof, which may be used for the 
purpose of war must be given up to the allied and associated 
powers. The Austro-Hungarian army and the German troops 
are only authorized to take personal arms and equipment 
belonging to troops evacuating the territories mentioned in 
article 3, besides officers' chargers, the transport train, and 
horses specially allotted to each unit for transport of food 
supplies, kitchens, officers' luggage, and medical material. 
This clause applies to the whole army and to all the services. 

(b) Concerning artillery, it has been arranged that the 
Austro-Hungarian army and German troops shall abandon all 
artillery material and equipment in the territory to be eva- 
cuated. 

The calculations necessary for obtaining a complete and exact 
total of the artillery divisions and army corps at the disposal 
of Austro-Hungary on the cessation of hostilities (half of which 
must be given up to the associated powers) will be made later, 
in order to arrange, if necessary, for the delivery of other 
Austro-Hungarian artillery material and for the possible 
eventual return of material to the Austro-Hungarian army by 
the allied and associated armies. 



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All artillery which does not actually form part of the divisional 
artillery and army corps must be given up, without exception- 
It will not, however, be necessary to calculate the amount. 

(c) On the Italian front the delivery of divisional and army 
corps artillery will be effected at the following places: Trento> 
Bolzano, Pieve di Cadore, Stazione per la Carnia, Tolmino, 
Gorizia, and Trieste. 

3. Special commissions will be selected by the commanders in 
chief of allied and associated armies on the various Austro- 
Hungarian fronts, which will immediately proceed, accom- 
panied by the necessary escorts, to the places they regard as the 
most suitable from which to control the execution of the pro- 
visions established above. 

4. It has been determined that the designations M. Toblach 
and M. Tarvis indicate the groups of mountains dominating 
the ridge of Toblach Mountains and the Valley of Tarvis. 

5. The retirement of Austro-Hungarian troops and those of 
her allies beyond the lines indicated in article 3 of the protocol 
of armistice conditions, will take place within 15 days of the 
cessation of hostilities, as far as the Italian front is concerned- 

On the Italian front, Austro-Hungarian troops and those of 
her allies must have retired beyond the line Tonale — Noce — 
Lavis — Avisio — Pordoi — Lavinallongo — Falzarego — Pieve 
di Cadore — Colle Mauria — Alto Tagliamento — Fella — 
Raccolana — Selle Nevea — Isonzo by the fifth day; they 
must also have evacuated the Dalmatian territory indicated 
above. 

Austro-Hungarian troops on land and sea, or those of her 
allies not having evacuated the territories indicated within the 
period of 15 days will be regarded as prisoners of war. 

6. The payment of any requisitions made by the armies of 
the allied and associated armies on Austro-Hungarian terri- 
tory will be carried out according to paragraph 1 of page 227 



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of " Servizio in Guerra — Part II, Edizione 1915," actually in 
force in the Italian army. 

7. As regards railways and the exercise of the rights con- 
firmed upon the associated powers by article 4 of the armis- 
tice agreement between the allied powers and Austria-Hungary, 
l t has been determined that the transport of troops, war mate- 
rial, and supplies for allied and associated powers on the 
Austro-Hungarian railway system, outside territory evacuated 
in accordance with the terms of the armistice, and the direction 
and working of the railways shall be effected by the employees 
of the Austro-Hungarian railway administration under the 
supervision of special commissioners selected by the allied 
powers, and the military Italian headquarters which it will be 
considered necessary to establish, the Austro-Hungarian 
authorities will give priority to allied military trains and will 
guarantee their safety. 

8. On territory to be evacuated at the cessation of hostilities 
all mines on roads or railway tracts, all mine fields and other 
devices for interrupting communications by road or rail must 
be rendered inactive and harmless. 

9. Within a period of eight days from the cessation of hos- 
tilities, prisoners and Italian subjects interned in Austria- 
Hungary must cease all work, except in the case of prisoners and 
interned who have been employed in agricultural pursuits 
previous to the day on which the armistice was signed. In 
any case they must be ready to leave at once on request of the 
commander in chief of the Italian army. 

10. Austria-Hungary must provide for the protection, safety ^ 
and supplies (expenses of these to be repaid) of the various 
commissions selected by the allied governments to take over 
war material and to exercise general control, whether in the 
territory to be evacuated or in any other part of Austria- 
Hungary. 



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(II) NAVAL CLAUSES. 

1. The hour for the cessation of hostilities by sea will be the 
same as that of the cessation of hostilities by land and air. 

Before that time the Austro-Hungarian Government must 
have furnished the Italian Government, and those of the 
associated powers, with the necessary information concerning 
the position and movements of the Austro-Hungarian ships, 
through the wireless station at Pola, which will transmit the 
information to Venice. 

2. The units referred to in Articles II and III, to be sur- 
rendered to the associated powers, must return to Venice be- 
tween 8 a. m. and 3 p. m. on November 6; they will take a pilot 
on board 14 miles from the coast. An exception is made as 
regards the Danube monitors, which will be required to pro- 
ceed to a port indicated by the commander in chief of the forces 
of the associated powers on the Balkan front, under such 
conditions as he may determine. 

3. The following ships will proceed to Venice: 

Teghethoff. 
Prinz Eugen. 
Ferdinand Max. 
Saida. 
Novara. 
Helgoland. 

Nine destroyers of Tatra type (at least 800 tons) of most 
recent construction. 
Twelve torpedo boats (200-ton type). 
Mine layer Chamaleon. 

Fifteen submarines built between 1910 and 1918, and all 
German submarines which are, or may eventually be, in Austro- 
Hungarian waters. 



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Premeditated damage, or damage occurring on board the 
ships to be surrendered will be regarded by the Allied Govern- 
ments as a grave infringement of the present armistice terms. 

The Lago di Garda flotilla will be surrendered to the asso- 
ciated powers in the port of Riva. 

All ships to be surrendered to the associated powers will be 
concentrated in the ports of Buccari and Spalato within 48 
hours of the cessation of hostilities. 

4. As regards the right of sweeping mine fields and destroy- 
ing barrages, the Austro-Hungarian Government guarantees to 
deliver the maps of mine fields and barrages at Pola, Cattaro, 
and Fiume to the commander of the port of Venice, and to the 
admiral of the fleet at Brindisi within 48 hours of the cessation 
of hostilities, and within 96 hours of the cessation of hostilities, 
maps of mine fields and barrages in the Mediterranean and 
Italian lakes and rivers with additional notification of such 
mine fields or barrages laid by order of the German Govern- 
ment as are within their knowledge. 

Within the same period of 96 hours a similar communication 
concerning the Danube and the Black Sea will be delivered to 
the commander of the associated forces on the Balkan front. 

5. The restitution of merchant ships belonging to the asso- 
ciated powers will take place within 96 hours of the cessation 
of hostilities, in accordance with the indications determined by 
each associated power which will be transmitted to the Austro- 
Hungarian Government. The associated powers reserve to 
themselves the constitution of the commission referred to in 
Article 5, and of informing the Austro-Hungarian Government 
of its functions and of the place in which it will meet. 

6. The naval base referred to in Article VI is Spalato. 

7. The evacuation referred to in Article VII will be effected 
within the period fixed for the retirement of the troops beyond 
the armistice lines. There must be no damage to fixed, mobile 
or floating material in the ports. 



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Evacuations may be effected via the Lagoon canals by means 
of Austro-Hungarian boats which may be brought in from out- 
side. 

8. The occupation referred to in Article VIII will take place 
within 48 hours of the cessation of hostilities. 

The Austro-Hungarian authorities must guarantee the safety 
of vessels transporting troops for the occupation of Pola and of 
islands and other places as provided for in the terms of the 
armistice for the land Army. 

The Austro-Hungarian Government will give directions that 
the ships belonging to associated powers proceeding to Pola 
should be met 14 miles out by pilots capable of showing them 
the safest way into port. All damage to the persons or prop- 
erty of the associated powers will be regarded as a grave 
infiingement of the present armistice terms. 

The undersigned duly authorized plenipotentiaries have 
signified their approval of the above conditions. 

November 3, 1918. 

Representatives of the Supreme Com- Representatives of the Supreme 
mand of the Austro-Hungarian Command of the Italian Army 
Army 

Victor Weber, Edler von Ten. Gen. Pietro Badoglio. 

Webenau. Magg. Gen. Scipione Sci- 
Karl Schneller pioni. 

Y. von Liechtenstein. Colonn. Tullio Marchetti. 

J. V. Nyekhegyi. Colonn. Pietro Gazzera. 

Zwierkowski. Colonn. Pietro Maravigna. 

Victor, Freiherr von Seil- Colonn. Alberto Pariani. 

LER, 

Kamillo Ruggera. Cap. Vase. Francesco Accinni. 



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TEXT OF MILITARY CONVENTION BETWEEN THE ALLIES AND 
HUNGARY, SIGNED AT BELGRADE, NOVEMBER 13, 1918. 

MILITARY CONVENTION REGULATING THE CONDITIONS UNDER 
WHICH THE ARMISTICE, SIGNED BETWEEN THE ALLIES AND 
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, IS TO BE APPLIED IN HUNGARY. 

1. The Hungarian Government will withdraw all troops 
north of a line drawn through the upper valley of the Szamos, 
Bistritz, Maros-Vasarhely, the river Maros to its junction with 
the Theiss, Maria-Theresiopel, Baja, Fiinfkirchen (these 
places not being occupied by Hungarian troops), course of the 
Drave, until it coincides with the frontier of Slavonia-Croatia. 

The evacuation to be carried out in eight days, the Allies to 
be entitled to occupy the evacuated territory on the conditions 
laid down by the general commander in chief of the allied 
armies. Civil administration will remain in the hands of the 
Government. 

In actual fact only the police and gendarmerie will be re- 
tained in the evacuated zone, being indispensable to the main- 
tenance of order, and also such men as are required to insure the 
safety of the railways. 

2. Demobilization of Hungarian naval and military forces. 
An exception will be made in the case of six infantry divisions 
and two cavalry divisions, required for the maintenance of 
internal order and in the case of small sections of police men- 
tioned in paragraph 1. 

3. The Allies to have the right of occupying all places and 
strategic points, which may be permanently fixed by the general 
commander in chief of the allied armies. 

The allied troops to be allowed to pass through or to remain 
in any part of Hungary. 

The Allies to have permanent right of use, for military pur- 
poses, of all rolling stock and shipping belonging to the State 



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or to private individuals resident in Hungary, also of all draft 
animals. 

4. The rolling stock and railway staff usually employed in 
the occupied territory will remain (see paragraph 1), and a 
reserve of 2,000 wagons and 100 locomotives (normal gauge), 
and 600 wagons and 50 locomotives (narrow gauge), will also 
be handed over within the month to the general commander 
in chief. These will be for the use of the allied troops and to 
compensate for the deficiency of material from Serbia due to 
the war. Some portion of this material could be levied from 
Austria. The figures are approximate. 

5. The ships and crews, usually employed in the service of 
the occupied territory will remain, in addition to monitors will 
be surrendered to the Allies immediately at Belgrade. The 
rest of the Danube flotilla will be assembled in one of the Dan- 
ube ports, to be appointed later by the general commander in 
chief, and will be disarmed there. A levy of 10 passenger 
vessels, 10 tugs, and 60 lighters will be made on this flotilla as 
soon as possible for the use of the allied troops, to compensate 
for the deficiency of material from Serbia due to the war. The 
figures are approximate. 

6. Within 15 days a detachment of 3,000 men from the rail- 
way technical troops are to be placed at the disposal of the 
general commander in chief, supplied with the material 
necessary to repair the Serbian railways. These figures are 
approximate. 

7. Within 15 days a detachment of sappers of the telegraph 
branch are to be placed at the disposal of the general com- 
mander in chief provided with material necessary for esta- 
blishing telegraphic and telephone communications with 
Serbia. 

8. Within one month, 25,000 horses are to be placed at the 
disposal of the general commander in chief, together with such 

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transport material as he may deem necessary. These figures 
are approximate. 

9. Arms and war material to be deposited at places appointed 
by the general commander in chief. A portion of this material 
will be levied for the purpose of supplying units to be placed 
under the orders of the general commander in chief. 

10. Immediate liberation of all allied prisoners of war and 
interned civilians, who will be collected at places convenient 
for their dispatch by rail. They will there receive directions 
as to'time and place of repatriation, according to the orders 
issued by the general commander in chief. Hungarian prison 
ers of war to be provisionally retained. 

11. A delay of 15 days is granted for the passage of German 
troops through Hungary and their quartering meanwhile, 
dating from the signing of the armistice by Gen. Diaz (Nov 
4, 3 p. m.). Postal and telegraphic communication with 
Germany will only be permitted under the military control of 
the Allies. The Hungarian Government undertakes to allow 
no military telegraphic communication with Germany. 

12. Hungary will facilitate the supplying of the allied troops 
of occupation; requisitions will be allowed on condition that 
they are not arbitrary and that they are paid for at current 
rates. 

13. The situation of all Austro-Hungarian mines in the 
Danube and the Black Sea must be communicated immediately 
to the general commander in chief. Further, the Hungarian 
Government undertakes to stop the passage of all floating 
mines sown in the Danube upstream from the Hungarian and 
Austrian frontier and to remove all those actually in Hun- 
garian waters. 

14. The Hungarian postal service, telegraphs, telephones, 
and railways will be placed under allied control. 



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15. An allied representative will be attached to the Hun- 
garian ministry of supplies in order to safeguard allied interests. 

16. Hungary is under an obligation to cease all relations 
with Germany and stringently to forbid the passage of German 
troops to Roumania. 

17. The Allies shall not interfere with the internal adminis- 
tration of affairs in Hungary. 

18. Hostilities between Hungary and the Allies are at an 
end. 

Two copies made November 13, 1918, at 11.15 p. m., at 
Belgrade. 

Signed for the Allies by the delegates of the general com- 
mander in chief. 

VOIVODE MlSHITCH. 

Gen. Henrys. 

Signed for Hungary by the delegates of the Hungarian 
Government. 

Bela Linder. 

Bulgaria Armistice Convention September 29, 1918. 
military convention regulating the conditions of sus- 
pension of hostilities between the allied powers and 
bulgaria. 

(1) Immediate evacuation of the territories still occupied by 
Bulgarians in Greece and Serbia; no cattle, cereals, or pro- 
visions to be exported from such territories, which must be 
left undamaged, the Bulgarian civil administration will con- 
tinue to function in the parts of Bulgaria actually occupied by 
the Allies. 

(2) Immediate demobilization of the entire Bulgarian Army, 
with the exception ol a fighting force comprising 3 divisions of 
16 battalions each, 4 regiments of cavalry, which will be em- 
ployed, 2 divisions for the defense of the east frontier of Bui- 



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garia, and of the Dobrudja and 1 division for guarding the 
railways. 

(3) Surrender at points designated by the high command of 
the armies of the east of arms, munitions, and military vehicles 
belonging to the elements demobilized, which will be stored by 
the Bulgarian authorities and under the control of the Allies. 
The horses also will be handed over to the Allies. 

(4) Restitution to Greece of the material of the Fourth 
Greek Army Corps, taken from the Greek Army at the occu- 
pation of eastern Macedonia, in so far that it has not been sent 
to Germany. 

(5) The elements of the Bulgarian troops now at the west 
of the meridian of Uskub will lay down their arms and will be 
considered, until further order, as prisoners of war; the officers 
will be allowed to keep their swords. 

(6) The Bulgarian prisoners of war in the East will be em- 
ployed by the allied armies until the peace without reciprocity 
as concerning the prisoners of war of the Allies. These last 
will be immediately surrendered to the allied authorities and 
deported civilians will be wholly free to reenter their own 
country. 

(7) Germany and Austria will be allowed a delay of four 
weeks to withdraw their troops and military organizations 
from Bulgaria. The diplomatic and consular representatives 
of the Central Powers, as well as their citizens, must withdraw 
in this same period. The orders for the cessation of hostilities 
will be given at the time of the signature of the present con- 
vention. 

(Signed) Gen. Franchet D'Esperey. 
(Signed) Andre Liaptchew. 
Gen. Loukoff. 



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MILITARY COVENANT REGULATING THE CONDITIONS OF THE SUS- 
PENSION OF HOSTILITIES BETWEEN THE ALLIED POWERS AND 
BULGARIA. 

SECRET ARTICLES. 

(1) The eventual passage of the Allied military forces over 
Bulgarian territory, as well as the utilization of railways, roads, 
waterways, and harbors, will be the object of a special covenant 
between the Bulgarian Government and the High Command of 
the Army of the East. Some negotiations to this effect will 
begin in about eight days at the most. They will concern, also, 
the control of telephone, telegraph, and the stations of T. S. F. 

(2) A certain number of strategical points in the interior of 
the Bulgarian territory will be occupied by the great allied 
powers. This occupation will be provisional, and will serve 
purely as a guaranty. It will not give way to coercion or 
arbitrary requisition. The General in Chief of the armies 
gives assurance that unless unusual circumstances arise, Sofia 
will not be occupied. 

(3) The General in Chief reserves for himself, in case of 
necessity, the right to demand absolute cessation of every 
relation between Bulgaria and her former allies. 

(4) The opening of Bulgarian ports to the vessels of allied 
and neutral powers. 

(Signed) Gen. Franchet D'Esperey. 
(Signed) Andre Liaptchew. 
Gen. Loukoff. 



JOINT RESOLUTION TERMINATING THE STATE OF 
WAR BETWEEN THE IMPERIAL GERMAN GOV- 
ERNMENT AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 
AND BETWEEN THE IMPERIAL AND ROYAL 
AUSTRO- HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT AND THE 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 

RESOL VED by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, That 
the state of war declared to exist between the Imperial 
German Government and the United States of America by 
the joint resolution of Congress approved April 6, 1917, is 
hereby declared at an end. 

Sec. 2. That in making this declaration, and as a part of 
it, there are expressly reserved to the United States of America 
and its nationals any and all rights, privileges, indemnities, 
reparations, or advantages, together with the right to enforce 
the same, to which it or they have become entitled under the 
terms of the armistice signed November 11, 1918, or any exten- 
sions or modifications thereof; or which were acquired by or 
are in the possession of the United States of America by reason 
of its participation in the war or to which its nationals have 
thereby become rightfully entitled ; or which, under the treaty 
of Versailles, have been stipulated for its or their benefit; or 
to which it is entitled as one of the principal allied and asso- 
ciated powers; or to which it is entitled by virtue of any Act 
or Acts of Congress; or otherwise. 

Sec. 3. That the state of war declared to exist between the 
Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government and the 
United States of America, by the joint resolution of Congress 
approved December 7, 1917, is hereby declared at an end. 

Sec. 4. That in making this declaration, and as a part of 
it, there are expressly reserved to the United States of America 



State of New York — Albany County 

and its nationals any and all rights, privileges, indemnities, 
reparations, or advantages, together with the right to enforce 
the same, to which it or they have become entitled under the 
terms of the armistice signed November 3, 1918, or any ex- 
tensions or modifications thereof; or which were acquired by 
or are in the possession of the United States of America by 
reason of its participation in the war or to which its nationals 
have thereby become rightfully entitled; or which, under the 
treaty of Saint Germain-en-Laye or the treaty of Tr anon, 
have been stipulated for its or their benefit; or to which it is 
entitled as one of the principal allied and associated powers; 
or to which it is entitled by virtue of any Act or Acts of 
Congress; or otherwise. 

Sec. 5. All property of the Imperial German Government, 
or its successor or successors, and of all German nationals 
which was, on April 6, 1917, in or has since that date come 
into the possession or under control of, or has been the subject 
of a demand by the United States of America or of any of its 
officers, agents, or employees, from any source or by any agency 
whatsoever, and all property of the Imperial and Royal Austro- 
Hungarian Government, or its successor or successors, and of 
all Austro-Hungarian nationals which was on December 
7, 1917, in or has since that date come into the possession or 
under control of, or has been the subject of a demand by the 
United States of America or any of its officers, agents, or 
employees, from any source or by any agency whatsoever, 
shall be retained by the United States of America and no dis- 
position thereof made, except as shall have been heretofore 
or specifically hereafter shall be provided by law until such 
time as the Imperial German Government and the Imperial 
and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government, or their successor 
or successors, shall have respectively made suitable provision 
for the satisfaction of all claims against said Governments 



134 The World War — Selective Service 

respectively, of all persons, wheresoever domiciled, who owe 
permanent allegiance to the United States of America and 
who have suffered, through the acts of the Imperial German 
Government, or its agents, or the Imperial and Royal Austro- 
Hungarian Government, or its agents, since July 31, 1914, 
loss, damage, or injury to their persons or property, directly 
or indirectly, whether through the ownership of shares of 
stock in German, Austro-Hungarian, American, or other cor- 
porations, or in consequence of hostilities or of any operations 
of war, or otherwise, and also shall have granted to persons 
owing permanent allegiance to the United States of America 
most-favored-nation treatment, whether the same be national 
or otherwise, in all matters affecting residence, business, pro- 
fession, trade, navigation, commerce, and industrial property 
rights, and until the Imperial German Government and the 
Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government, or their 
successor or successors, shall have respectively confirmed to 
the United States of America all fines, forfeitures, penalties, 
and seizures imposed or made by the United States of America 
during the war, whether in respect to the property of the 
Imperial German Government or German nationals or the 
Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government or Austro- 
Hungarian nationals, and shall have waived any and all 
pecuniary claims against the United States of America. 

Sec. 6. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to 
repeal, modify or amend the provisions of the joint resolution 
" declaring that certain Acts of Congress, joint resolutions 
and proclamations shall be construed as if the war had ended 
and the present or existing emergency expired," approved 
March 3, 1921, or the passport control provisions of an Act 
entitled "An act making appropriations for the diplomatic 
and consular service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922," 
approved March 2, 1921; nor to be effective to terminate the 



State of New York — Albany County 135 

military status of any person now in desertion from the mili- 
tary or naval service of the United States, nor to terminate 
the liability to prosecution and punishment under the Selective 
Service Law, approved May 18, 1917, of any person who 
failed to comply with the provisions of said Act, or of Acts 
amendatory thereof. 
Approved, July 2, 1921. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

OF AMERICA 

A PROCLAMATION 

WHEREAS, by a Joint Resolution of Congress, approved 
March 3, 1921, it was declared that certain Acts of 
Congress, joint resolutions and proclamations should be con- 
strued as if the war between the United States of America and 
the Imperial German Government had ended, but certain acts 
of Congress and proclamations issued in pursuance thereof 
were excepted from the operation of the said resolution ; 

Whereas, by a Joint Resolution of Congress approved 
July 2, 1921, the state of war which was declared by the Joint 
Resolution of Congress approved April 6, 1917, to exist between 
the United States of America and the Imperial German Govern- 
ment was declared at an end; 

Whereas, a treaty between the United States and Germany 
was signed at Berlin on August 25, 1921, to restore the 
friendly relations existing between the two nations prior to 
the outbreak of war, which treaty is word for word as follows: 

The United States of America and Germany 
Considering that the United States, acting in conjunction 
with its co-belligerents, entered into an Armistice with 
Germany on November 11, 1918, in order that a Treaty of 
Peace might be concluded; 

Considering that the Treaty of Versailles was signed on 
June 28, 1919, and came into force according to the terms of 
its Article 440, but has not been ratified by the United States; 



State of New York — Albany County 137 

Considering that the Congress of the United States passed 
a Joint Resolution, approved by the President July 2, 1921, 
which reads in part as follows : 

" Resolved by the Senate and House of Representa- 
tives of the United States of America in Congress 
Assembled, That the state of war declared to exist between 
the Imperial German Government and the United States of 
America by the joint resolution of Congress approved April 
6, 1917, is hereby declared at an end. 

" Sec. 2. That in making this declaration, and as a part of 
it, there are expressly reserved to the United States of America 
and its nationals any and all rights, privileges, indemnities, 
reparations, or advantages, together with the right to enforce 
the same, to which it or they have become entitled under the 
terms of the armistice signed November 11, 1918, or any 
extensions or modifications thereof; or which were acquired 
by or are in the possession of the United States of America 
by reason of its participation in the war or to which its nationals 
have thereby become rightfully entitled; or which, under the 
treaty of Versailles, have been stipulated for its or their 
benefit; or to which it is entitled as one of the principal allied 
and associated powers; or to which it is entitled by virtue of 
any Act or Acts of Congress; or otherwise. 



" Sec. 5. All property of the Imperial German Government, 
or its successor or successors, and of all German nationals, 
which was, on April 6, 1917, in or has since that date come into 
the possession or under control of, or has been the subject of 
a demand by the United States of America or of any of its 
officers, agents, or employees, from any source or by any agency 
whatsoever, and all property of the Imperial and Royal 
Austro-Hungarian Government, or its successor or successors 
and of all Austro-Hungarian nationals which was on December 
7, 1917, in or has since that date come into the possession or 



138 The World War — Selective Service 

under control of, or has been the subject of a demand by the 
United States of America or any of its officers, agents, or 
employees, from any source or by any agency whatsoever, 
shall be retained by the United States of America and no 
disposition thereof made, except as shall have been heretofore 
or specifically hereafter shall be provided by law until such time 
as the Imperial German Government and the Imperial and 
Royal Austro-Hungarian Government, or their successor or 
successors, shall have respectively made suitable provision for 
the satisfaction of all claims against said Governments respec- 
tively, of all persons, wheresoever domiciled, who owe perma- 
nent allegiance to the United States of America and who have 
suffered, through the acts of the Imperial German Government, 
or its agents, or the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian 
Government, or its agents, since July 31, 1914, loss, damage, 
or injury to their persons or property, directly or indirectly, 
whether through the ownership of shares of stock in German, 
Austro-Hungarian, American, or other corporations, or in 
consequence of hostilities or of any operations of war, or other- 
wise, and also shall have granted to persons owing permanent 
allegiance to the United States of America most-favored- 
nation treatment, whether the same be national or otherwise, 
in all matters affecting residence, business, profession, trade, 
navigation, commerce and industrial property rights, and until 
the Imperial German Government and the Imperial and Royal 
Austro-Hungarian Government, or their successor or successors, 
shall have respectively confirmed to the United States of 
America all fines, forfeitures, penalties, and seizures imposed 
or made by the United States of America during the war, 
whether in respect to the property of the Imperial German 
Government or German nationals or the Imperial and Royal 
Austro-Hungarian Government or Austro-Hungarian nationals, 
and shall have waived any and all pecuniary claims against 
the United States of America." 

Being desirous of restoring the friendly relations existing 
between the two Nations prior to the outbreak of war: 



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Have for that purpose appointed their plenipotentiaries : 

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF 
AMERICA 

Ellis Loring Dresel, Commissioner of the 
United States of America to Germany, 
and 
THE PRESIDENT OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE 
Dr. Friedrich Rosen, Minister for Foreign 
Affairs, 
Who, having communicated their full powers, found to be 
in good and due form, have agreed as follows : 

Article I. 
Germany undertakes to accord to the United States, and 
the United States shall have and enjoy all the rights, privileges, 
indemnities, reparations or advantages specified in the afore- 
said Joint Resolution of the Congress of the United States 
of July 2, 1921, including all the rights and advantages stipu- 
lated for the benefit of the United States in the Treaty of 
Versailles which the United States shall fully enjoy notwith- 
standing the fact that such Treaty has not been ratified by 
the United States. 

Article II. 

With a view to defining more particularly the obligations 
of Germany under the foregoing Article, with respect to cer- 
tain provisions in the Treaty of Versailles, it is understood 
and agreed between the High Contracting Parties: 

(1). That the rights and advantages stipulated in that 
Treaty for the benefit of the United States, which it is intended 
the United States shall have and enjoy, are those defined in 
Section 1, of Part IV, and Parts V, VI, VIII, IX, X, XI, 
XII, XIV, and XV. 

The United States in availing itself of the rights and advan- 
tages stipulated in the provisions of that Treaty mentioned in 
this paragraph will do so in a manner consistent with the rights 
accorded to Germany under such provisions. 



140 The World War — • Selective Service 

(2) That the United States shall not be bound by the pro- 
visions of Part I of that Treaty, nor by any provisions of that 
Treaty including those mentioned in Paragraph (1) of this 
Article, which relate to the Covenant of the League of Nations, 
nor shall the United States be bound by any action taken by 
the League of Nations, or by the Council or by the Assembly 
thereof, unless the United States shall expressly give its assent 
to such action. 

(3) That the United States assumes no obligations under or 
with respect to the provisions of Part II, Part III, Sections 2 
to 8 inclusive of Part IV, and Part XIII of that Treaty. 

(4) That, while the United States is privileged to participate 
in the Reparation Commission, according to the terms of Part 
VIII of that Treaty, and in any other Commission established 
under the Treaty or under any agreement supplemental 
thereto, the United States is not bound to participate in any 
such commission unless it shall elect to do so. 

(5) That the periods of time to which reference is made in 
Article 440 of the Treaty of Versailles shall run, with respect 
to any act or election on the part of the United States, from 
the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty. 

Article III. 
The present Treaty shall be ratified in accordance with the 
constitutional forms of the High Contracting Parties and 
shall take effect immediately on the exchange of ratifications 
which shall take place as soon as possible at Berlin. 

In Witness Whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have 
signed this Treaty and have hereunto affixed their seals. 

Done in duplicate in Berlin this twenty-fifth day of August, 
1921. 

[seal.] Ellis Loring Dresel 

[seal.] Rosen 



State of New York — Albany County 141 

And Whereas, the said treaty has been duly ratified on 
both parts, and the ratifications of the two countries were 
exchanged at Berlin on November 11, 1921; 

Now Therefore, be it known that I, Warren G. Harding, 
President of the United States of America, hereby proclaim 
that the war between the United States and Germany termi- 
nated on July 2, 1921, and cause the said treaty to be made 
public to the end that every article and clause thereof may be 
observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and 
the citizens thereof. 

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and 
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. 

Done at the City of Washington this fourteenth 

day of November, One Thousand Nine Hundred 

[seal.] and Twenty-one and of the Independence of the 

United States of America the One Hundred and 

Forty-sixth. 

WARREN G. HARDING 
By the President : 

Charles E. Hughes, 
Secretary of State. 



[Ratification.] 
WARREN G. HARDING, 

President of the United States of America, 

To All To Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greeting : 
Know Ye, That whereas a Treaty between the United States 
of America and Germany to restore the friendly relations 
existing between the two nations prior to the outbreak of 
war, was concluded and signed by their respective plenipo- 
tentiaries at Berlin on August 25, 1921, the original of which 
Treaty, in the English and German languages, is hereto 
annexed : 



142 The World War — Selective Service 

And Whereas, the Senate of the United States, by their 
resolution of October 18, 1921, (two-thirds of the Senators 
present concurring therein) did advise and consent to the 
ratification of the said Treaty, subject to the understanding, 
made a part of the resolution of ratification, " that the United 
States shall not be represented or participate in any body, 
agency, or commission, nor shall any persons represent the 
United States as a member of any body, agency or commission 
in which the United States is authorized to participate by this 
Treaty, unless and until an Act of the Congress of the United 
States shall provide for such representation or participation "; 
and subject to the further understanding, made a part of the 
resolution of ratification, " that the rights and advantages 
which the United States is entitled to have and enjoy under 
this Treaty embrace the rights and advantages of nationals 
of the United States specified in the Joint Resolution or in 
the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles to which this Treaty 
refers "; 

Now, Therefore, be it known that I, Warren G. Harding, 
President of the United States of America, having seen and 
considered the said Treaty, do hereby, in pursuance of the 
aforesaid advice and consent of the Senate, ratify and confirm 
the same and every article and clause thereof, subject to the 
understandings hereinabove recited. 

In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the seal of the 
United States to be hereunto affixed. 

Given under my hand at the City of Washington, 
the twenty-first day of October, in the year of 
our Lord, One Thousand nine Hundred and 
[seal.] Twenty-one, and of the Independence of the 
United States of America, the One Hundred and 
Forty-sixth. 

WARREN G. HARDING 
By the President : 

Charles E. Hughes, 
Secretary of State. 



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